Monster List
list: API endpoint for returning a list of monsters.
retrieve: API endpoint for returning a particular monster.
GET /v1/monsters/?format=api&ordering=perception&page=10
{ "count": 3207, "next": "https://api.open5e.com/v1/monsters/?format=api&ordering=perception&page=11", "previous": "https://api.open5e.com/v1/monsters/?format=api&ordering=perception&page=9", "results": [ { "slug": "noctiny", "desc": "_A grinning man brandishes a staff surmounted by a rune-covered skull. Blasphemous sigils adorn his clothes, and ashes stain his skin a sickly gray._ \nNoctiny are wretched humanoids corrupted by fell power. Their skin is sallow and gaunt even before they smear it with ash, bone dust, and worse materials to wash all living color from their bodies. The noctiny embrace all manner of blasphemous and taboo behaviors to please their masters. \n**Pyramid of Power.** The noctiny’s lust for power drives them away from decency and reason. They are initiates who form the lowest rung of fext society. They swear themselves into service to the undead fext as thugs, servants, acolytes, and cannon fodder, and in exchange draw a trickle of power for themselves. \n**A Race Apart.** Though they arise from any humanoid stock, the noctiny are corrupted by the powers they serve. Noctiny retain the cosmetic traits that identify their original race if one looks hard enough, but any connection they once had to their fellows is overpowered by their transformation into noctiny.", "name": "Noctiny", "size": "Medium", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "noctiny", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "studded leather armor", "hit_points": 52, "hit_dice": "8d8+16", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 12, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "frightened", "senses": "passive Perception 10", "languages": "Common, plus the language spoken by the noctini's fext master", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The noctiny makes two melee attacks." }, { "name": "Pact Staff", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage or 8 (1d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage if used in two hands.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "1d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The noctiny has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Pact Wrath", "desc": "One of the noctiny's weapons is infused with power. Its attacks with this weapon count as magical, and it adds its Charisma bonus to the weapon's damage (included below)." }, { "name": "Spellcasting", "desc": "the noctiny is a 3rd-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability score is Charisma (save DC 13, +5 to hit with spell attacks). It knows the following warlock spells.\n\ncantrips (at will): chill touch, eldritch blast, poison spray\n\n1st level (4 slots): armor of agathys, charm person, hellish rebuke, hex\n\n2nd level (2 slots): crown of madness, misty step" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 308, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_noctiny/" }, { "slug": "ogre-chieftain-corrupted", "desc": "", "name": "Ogre Chieftain, Corrupted", "size": "Large", "type": "Giant", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "splint", "hit_points": 127, "hit_dice": "15d10+45", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 8, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 5, "wisdom": 7, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": 8, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 6, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 2, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8", "languages": "Common, Giant", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The corrupted ogre chieftain makes two melee attacks." }, { "name": "Greatclub", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Javelin", "desc": "Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Aggressive", "desc": "As a bonus action, the corrupted ogre chieftain can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see. Mutation. The corrupted ogre chieftain has one mutation from the list below:" }, { "name": "Mutation", "desc": "1 - Armored Hide: The corrupted ogre chieftain's skin is covered in dull, melted scales that give it resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.\n\n2 - Extra Arm: The corrupted ogre chieftain has a third arm growing from its chest. The corrupted ogre chieftain can make three melee attacks or two ranged attacks.\n\n3 - Savant: The corrupted ogre chieftain's head is grossly enlarged. Increase its Charisma to 16. The corrupted ogre chieftain gains Innate Spellcasting (Psionics), and its innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components: At will: misty step, shield; 1/day each: dominate monster, levitate.\n\n4 - Terrifying: The corrupted ogre chieftain's body is covered in horns, eyes, and fanged maws. Each creature of the corrupted ogre chieftain's choice that is within 60 feet of it and is aware of it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to this ogre chieftain's Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 423, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_ogre-chieftain-corrupted/" }, { "slug": "owl-harpy", "desc": "_This winged woman’s face is wreathed in a headdress of feathers; her luminous eyes and aquiline nose lend beauty to her feral demeanor. Her sharp, taloned feet seem even more inhuman by comparison._ \n**Harpy Queens.** An owl harpy is a queen among her kind, possessing superior grace and intelligence and an owl's predatory instinct and savage appetite. Owl harpies never grow hair, only feathers, which often wreathe their faces and crown their heads like a headdress. Their taloned feet are strong and razor sharp. They are much stronger fliers than lesser harpies; they swoop and hover in mid-air with ease to tear their prey apart. They are found in temperate climates as well as in deserts and jungles. \n**Noctural Magic.** Owl harpies practice a rare, potent magic associated with darkness and the night. They can counter most light sources easily. So refined is their hearing that neither darkness nor invisibility detracts from their ability to hunt their quarry. Their acute hearing also means that thunder attacks distress them. \nOwl harpies are natural (if irredeemably evil) bards thanks to their sharp wits. Less common but not unheard of are owl harpy oracles, scholars, and collectors. These savants are known to exchange their knowledge and insights for companionship or for unusual gifts and treasures.", "name": "Owl Harpy", "size": "Medium", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 112, "hit_dice": "15d8+45", "speed": { "walk": 20, "fly": 80, "hover": true }, "strength": 12, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "performance": 7, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "thunder", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Abyssal, Giant", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The owl harpy makes two claw attacks and two talon attacks." }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d4" }, { "name": "Talons", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Hovering Darkness", "desc": "An owl harpy that hovers in flight can shake a fine, magical dander from her wings over a creature within 20 feet and directly below her. The creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or fall unconscious and be poisoned for 10 minutes. It wakes up if it takes damage or if a creature uses an action to shake it awake, but waking up doesn't end the poisoning." }, { "name": "Luring Song", "desc": "The owl harpy sings a magical melody. Every humanoid and giant within 300 feet of the harpy that can hear the song must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed until the song ends. The harpy must use a bonus action on its subsequent turns to continue singing. It can stop singing at any time. The song ends if the harpy becomes incapacitated. While charmed by the harpy, a target is incapacitated and ignores the songs of other harpies. A charmed target that is more than 5 feet away from the harpy must move at its highest rate (including dashing, if necessary) along the most direct route to get within 5 feet of the harpy. The charmed creature doesn't maneuver to avoid opportunity attacks, but it can repeat the saving throw every time it takes damage from anything other than the harpy. It also repeats the saving throw before entering damaging terrain (lava or a pit, for example), if the most direct route includes a dangerous space. A creature also repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns. A successful saving throw ends the effect on that creature and makes the creature immune to this harpy's song for 24 hours." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Quiet Flight", "desc": "The owl harpy gains an additional +3 to Stealth (+9 in total) while flying." }, { "name": "Dissonance", "desc": "The owl harpy can't use its blindsight while deafened." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the owl harpy's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma. The owl harpy can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\n3/day: darkness" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 246, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_owl-harpy/" }, { "slug": "paper-drake", "desc": "_With its sharp angles and translucent skin, this draconic creature looks as if it were carefully folded from a massive sheet of paper, including its razor-sharp claws and teeth._ \n**Book and Map Erasers.** These drakes originated in exotic lands far away, where paper is as common as parchment and vellum. They now inhabit wide stretches of the world, and they seem to have edited their origins out of history. \nPaper drakes are a bane to historians and spellcasters because they can erase ink and pigments, and they often do so at random simply for aesthetic purposes. They adore the possibility of a blank page, but they also sometimes erase one selectively to make beautiful patterns in the remaining ink. \n**Correcting Errors.** Some paper drakes have a compulsion to correct errors in text or speech, and in these cases their strange ability isn’t a nuisance. Indeed, these paper drakes help scribes correct mistakes, update outdated text, or erase entire volumes so they can be hand-lettered again with different text. \n**Tattoo Magicians.** Paper drakes are sometimes subjected to strange magical rituals in which wizards tattoo powerful runes and symbols onto their skin. Those who survive this process gain even stranger, esoteric abilities, such as the ability to “stamp” text or images with their feet, the ability to make illustrations move as if alive, or even the ability to erase the memory of written words from a person’s mind, much as they erase text from a page. \nIn their regular form, paper drakes reach just over four feet in length and weight around 30 lb. They are usually white or tan, but develop a brown or yellow tone as they age.", "name": "Paper Drake", "size": "Small", "type": "Dragon", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 78, "hit_dice": "12d6+36", "speed": { "walk": 40, "fly": 100 }, "strength": 7, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "paralysis, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common, Draconic, Dwarvish, Elvish", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The drake makes one bite attack, one claw attack, and one tail attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (3d6 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "3d6" }, { "name": "Tail (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (5d6 + 3) slashing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be incapacitated for 1 round.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "5d6+3" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Shelve", "desc": "A paper drake can fold itself into a small, almost flat form, perfect for hiding on bookshelves. The drake can still be recognized as something other than a book by someone who handles it (doesn't just glance at it on the shelf) and makes a successful DC 11 Intelligence (Nature or Investigation) check. The drake can hop or fly (clumsily, by flapping its pages) 5 feet per turn in this form." }, { "name": "Refold (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "A paper drake can fold its body into different sizes and shapes. The drake can adjust its size by one step in either direction, but can't be smaller than Tiny or larger than Medium size. Changes in size or shape don't affect the paper drake's stats." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 154, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_paper-drake/" }, { "slug": "pombero", "desc": "_This squat little man has long limbs and skin the color of coal, and the backs of its hands and tops of its feet are covered in thick hair. Its face seems a bit too wide for its head, and its eyes gleam a little too brightly in the pale light._ \nPomberos are strange tricksters, born of shadows in the wild. At rest, they tend to adopt a squatting posture, which accentuates their too-long limbs. They shun bright light, though it doesn’t harm them, and seek out shadows and half-light. For this reason, they are known as the Night People. \n**Joy of Trespassing.** Pomberos take delight from creeping into places where they don’t belong and stealing interesting objects. A pombero’s lair is littered with trinkets, both commonplace and valuable. The blame for all manner of misfortune is laid at the pombero’s hairy feet. \n**Hatred of Hunters.** In contrast to their larcenous ways, pomberos take great umbrage over the killing of animals and the destruction of trees in their forests. Birds are particularly beloved pets, and they enjoy mimicking bird songs and calls most of all. Villagers in areas near pombero territory must be careful to treat the animals and trees with respect, and killing birds usually is a strong taboo in such areas.", "name": "Pombero", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 90, "hit_dice": "12d8+36", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "athletics": 5, "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The pombero uses Charming Touch if able, and makes two fist attacks." }, { "name": "Fist", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage and the target is grappled (escape DC 13).", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Charming Touch (recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The pombero chooses a creature it can see within 5 feet. The creature must make a successful DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed for 10 minutes. The effect ends if the charmed creature takes damage. The pombero can have only one creature at a time charmed with this ability. If it charms a new creature, the previous charm effect ends immediately." }, { "name": "Invisibility", "desc": "The pombero becomes invisible until it chooses to end the effect as a bonus action, or when it attacks." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Beast's Voice", "desc": "The pombero can magically speak with any beast and can perfectly mimic beast sounds." }, { "name": "Twisted Limbs", "desc": "The pombero can twist and squeeze itself through a space small enough for a Tiny bird to pass through as if it were difficult terrain." }, { "name": "Sneak Attack (1/turn)", "desc": "The pombero does an extra 7 (2d6) damage with a weapon attack when it has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of the pombero that isn't incapacitated and the pombero doesn't have disadvantage on the roll." }, { "name": "Soft Step", "desc": "The pombero has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks in forest terrain." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 313, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_pombero/" }, { "slug": "possessed-pillar", "desc": "_This ancient animal-headed pillar is engraved with weathered symbols from ancient empires._ \n**Animal Headed.** Possessed pillars are carved from enormous blocks of stone to look like animal-headed gods of ancient pantheons, or sometimes demonic figures of zealous cults. The most common are the jackal-faced and the ibis-headed variants, but pillars with baboon, crocodile, elephant, or hawk heads also exist. \n**Hijacked by Cults.** Some such pillars are claimed by various cults, and carved anew with blasphemous symbols or smeared with blood, oils, and unguents as sacrificial offerings. \n**Weapon Donations.** Priests claim the weapons stolen by the pillars and distribute them to temple guards or sell them to fund temple activities. \n**Constructed Nature.** A possessed pillar doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Possessed Pillar", "size": "Large", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 95, "hit_dice": "10d10+40", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 8, "constitution": 19, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 1, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison, psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with adamantine weapons", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "understands the languages of its creator but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The pillar makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "3d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Immutable Form", "desc": "The pillar is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The pillar has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The pillar's weapon attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Steal Weapons", "desc": "The eldritch magic that powers the pillar produces a magnetic power that seizes metal objects that touch it, including metal weapons. When a creature successfully strikes the pillar with a metal melee weapon, the attacker must make a successful DC 15 Strength or Dexterity saving throw or the weapon becomes stuck to the pillar until the pillar releases it or is destroyed. The saving throw uses the same ability as the attack used. The pillar can release all metal weapons stuck to it whenever it wants. A pillar always drops all weapons stuck to it when it believes it's no longer threatened. This ability affects armor only during a grapple." }, { "name": "False Appearance", "desc": "While the pillar remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a statue or a carved column." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 314, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_possessed-pillar/" }, { "slug": "putrid-haunt", "desc": "_These shambling corpses have twigs, branches, and other debris intertwined with their bodies, and their gaping maws often crawl with scrabbling vermin._ \n**Swamp Undead.** Putrid haunts are walking corpses infused with moss, mud, and the detritus of the deep swamp. They are the shambling remains of individuals who, either through mishap or misdeed, died while lost in a vast swampland. Their desperate need to escape the marshland in life transforms into a hatred of all living beings in death. They often gather in places tainted by evil deeds. \n**Mossy Islands.** When no potential victims are nearby, putrid haunts sink into the water and muck, where moss and water plants grow over them and vermin inhabit their rotting flesh. When living creatures draw near, the dormant putrid haunt bursts from its watery hiding spot and attacks its prey, slamming wildly with its arms and stomping on prone foes to push them deeper into the muck. There’s no planning and little cunning in their assault, but they move through the marshes more freely than most intruders and they attack with a single-mindedness that’s easily mistaken for purpose. \n**Leech Harbors.** Putrid haunts create especially favorable conditions for leeches. They are often hosts or hiding places for large gatherings of leeches. \n**Undead Nature.** A putrid haunt doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Putrid Haunt", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 44, "hit_dice": "8d8+8", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 8, "constitution": 13, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning and piercing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Vomit Leeches (Recharge 6)", "desc": "A putrid haunt can vomit forth the contents of its stomach onto a target within 5 feet. Along with the bile and mud from its stomach, this includes 2d6 undead leeches that attach to the target. A creature takes 1 necrotic damage per leech on it at the start of the creature's turn, and the putrid haunt gains the same number of temporary hit points. As an action, a creature can remove or destroy 1d3 leeches from itself or an adjacent ally." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Dead Still", "desc": "Treat a putrid haunt as invisible while it's buried in swamp muck." }, { "name": "Swamp Shamble", "desc": "Putrid haunts suffer no movement penalties in marshy terrain." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 315, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_putrid-haunt/" }, { "slug": "ramag", "desc": "_These few denizens of a blasted desert waste now huddle in the remains of an ancient city—a city magically scattered across hundreds of miles._ \n**Once Human.** The ramag were a powerful tribe of dimensional sorcerers allied with a great society of titans, and they were indeed human in ages past. Over time, strange practices warped them into their current state, and they are clearly no longer purely human. Their limbs grow too long in proportion to their bodies, giving them a stooped, odd posture. Their features are angular, and a ramag’s hair is impossibly thick; each strand is the width of a human finger. They wear their strange hair tied back in decorative clasps. \n**Portal Network.** The ramag used their innate magical gifts to maintain powerful magical conduits, ley lines that crisscrossed the titan’s empire. This mastery of arcane might allowed instantaneous travel to the farthest-flung outpost. The ramag still maintain a network of magical monoliths that connect the scattered districts of their home, but this network is frayed and fading. \n**Studious and Powerful.** Although physically weak, the ramag are sharp-witted, studious, and naturally infused with magic. Lifetimes of exposure to the warping effect of their runaway magical energy have given the ramag innate control over magic, as well as sharp resistance to it. They are acutely aware of their responsibility for keeping magic in check, and fully know the danger of uncontrolled magical energies. Even the the lowliest ramag has a sharp intellect and a natural understanding of magic. Many ramag take up the study of wizardry. Few become wandering adventurers, but well-equipped expeditions sometimes leave their homeland to inspect the surrounding countryside.", "name": "Ramag", "size": "Medium", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "ramag", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "leather armor", "hit_points": 27, "hit_dice": "6d8", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 9, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 11, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "arcana": 5, "investigation": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Scimitar", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Shortbow", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The ramag has advantage on saving throws against spells or other magical effects." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 317, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_ramag/" }, { "slug": "rat-king", "desc": "_A great knot of scabrous rats scrabbles together as a mass, with skulls, bones, and flesh entangled in the whole. Teeth, eyes, and fur all flow as a single disturbing rat swarm walking on two legs._ \n**Fused at the Tail.** A rat king forms when dozens of rats twist their tails together in a thick knot of bone and lumpy cartilage. Its numbers and powers grow quickly. \n**Rule Sewers and Slums.** The rat king is a cunning creature that stalks city sewers, boneyards, and slums. Some even command entire thieves’ guilds or hordes of beggars that give it obeisance. They grow larger and more powerful over time until discovered. \n**Plague and Dark Magic.** The rat king is the result of plague infused with twisted magic, and a malignant ceremony that creates one is called “Enthroning the Rat King.” Rats afflicted with virulent leavings of dark magic rites or twisted experiments become bound to one another. As more rats add to the mass, the creature’s intelligence and force of will grow, and it invariably goes quite mad.", "name": "Rat King", "size": "Medium", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 76, "hit_dice": "9d8+36", "speed": { "walk": 30, "burrow": 20 }, "strength": 6, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, slashing", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Thieves' Cant", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The rat king makes four bite attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage, and a bitten creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be infected with a disease. A diseased creature gains one level of exhaustion immediately. When the creature finishes a long rest, it must repeat the saving throw. On a failure, the creature gains another level of exhaustion. On a success, the disease does not progress. The creature recovers from the disease if its saving throw succeeds after two consecutive long rests or if it receives a lesser restoration spell or comparable magic. The creature then recovers from one level of exhaustion after each long rest.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Summon Swarm (1/Day)", "desc": "The rat king summons three swarms of rats. The swarms appear immediately within 60 feet of the rat king. They can appear in spaces occupied by other creatures. The swarms act as allies of the rat king. They remain for 1 hour or until the rat king dies." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Absorption", "desc": "When the rat king does damage to a rat or rat swarm, it can absorb the rat, or part of the swarm, into its own mass. The rat king regains hit points equal to the damage it did to the rat or swarm." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Keen Smell", "desc": "The rat king has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell." }, { "name": "Plague of Ill Omen", "desc": "The rat king radiates a magical aura of misfortune in a 30-foot radius. A foe of the rat king that starts its turn in the aura must make a successful DC 14 Charisma saving throw or be cursed with bad luck until the start of its next turn. When a cursed character makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, it must subtract 1d4 from the result." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 318, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_rat-king/" }, { "slug": "ratatosk", "desc": "_Chattering creatures with a superficial similarity to squirrels, the ratatosk have tiny tusks and fur that shimmers in a way that defies the surrounding light._ \n**Sleek-furred Celestials.** The ratatosk is a celestial being that is very much convinced of its own indispensable place in the multiverse. Its fur is sleek, and it takes great pride in the cleaning and maintaining of its tusks. \n**Planar Messengers.** Ratatosks were created to carry messages across the planes, bearing word between gods and their servants. Somewhere across the vast march of ages, their nature twisted away from that purpose. Much speculation as to the exact cause of this change continues to occupy sages. \n**Maddening Gossips.** Ratatosk are insatiable tricksters. Their constant chatter is not the mere nattering of their animal counterparts, it is a never-ending celestial gossip network. Ratatosk delight in learning secrets, and spreading those secrets in mischievous ways. It’s common for two listeners to hear vastly different words when a ratatosk speaks, and for that misunderstanding to lead to blows.", "name": "Ratatosk", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Celestial", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 42, "hit_dice": "12d4+12", "speed": { "walk": 20, "climb": 20 }, "strength": 4, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 17, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": 4, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 6, "persuasion": 6, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Celestial, Common; telepathy 100 ft.", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Gore", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage plus 14 (4d6) psychic damage and the target must make a successful DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed for 1 round. While charmed in this way, the creature regards one randomly determined ally as a foe.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "4d6" }, { "name": "Divisive Chatter (recharge 5-6)", "desc": "Up to six creatures within 30 feet that can hear the ratatosk must make DC 14 Charisma saving throws. On a failure, the creature is affected as if by a confusion spell for 1 minute. An affected creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Desperate Lies", "desc": "A creature that can hear the ratatosk must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw when it attacks the ratatosk. If the saving throw fails, the creature still attacks, but it must choose a different target creature. An ally must be chosen if no other enemies are within the attack's reach or range. If no other target is in the attack's range or reach, the attack is still made (and ammunition or a spell slot is expended, if appropriate) but it automatically misses and has no effect." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the ratatosk's spellcasting attribute is Charisma (save DC 14). It can innately cast the following spells without requiring material or somatic components:\n\nat will: animal messenger, message, vicious mockery\n\n1/day each: commune, mirror image\n\n3/day each: sending, suggestion" }, { "name": "Skitter", "desc": "The ratatosk can take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action as a bonus action on each of its turns." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 319, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_ratatosk/" }, { "slug": "ravenala", "desc": "_Ravenalas guard tropical forests and watch after local flora and fauna. Their heads are crowned by long-stemmed, green-paddled fronds and spiked seed pods, and their dangling arms end in hooked wooden talons._ \n**Leafy Advisors.** Tribal humanoids respect and venerate ravenelas, and sometimes seek their advice or magical aid at times of great need. Ravenalas seldom interact with other species unless approached and questioned. \n**Prisoners Lamentation.** Unlike treants, ravenalas avoid physical conflict in favor of magical responses. If annoyed, they imprison hostile creatures within their trunks rather than killing or eating them. Trapped creatures must sing their own lament as they are carried off to a distant, dangerous locale. Ravenalas grow to about 20 feet tall and can weigh 1,800 lb.", "name": "Ravenala", "size": "Large", "type": "Plant", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 126, "hit_dice": "12d10+60", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": 6, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "cold, fire", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "blinded, deafened", "senses": "passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Druidic, Elvish, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The ravenala makes two slam attacks or two bursting pod attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d6+5" }, { "name": "Bursting Pod", "desc": "Melee Ranged Attack: +8 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage, and the target and all creatures within 5 feet of it also take 5 (2d4) piercing damage, or half as much piercing damage with a successful DC 15 Dexterity saving throw.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Lamenting Engulfment", "desc": "The ravenala targets a creature within 5 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or be grappled and restrained by the ravenala. While restrained, the creature is engulfed inside the ravenala's trunk. The ravenala can grapple one creature at a time; grappling doesn't prevent it from using other attacks against different targets. The restrained creature must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw at the start of each of its turns. On a failure, the creature is compelled to sing a lament of all its various mistakes and misdeeds for as long as it remains restrained. Singing prevents uttering command words, casting spells with a verbal component, or any verbal communication. The restrained creature can still make melee attacks. When the ravenala moves, the restrained creature moves with it. A restrained creature can escape by using an action to make a DC 15 Strength check. On a success, the creature escapes and enters a space of its choice within 5 feet of the ravenala." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The ravenala has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the ravenala's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 14). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: entangle, sleep\n\n1/day each: heal, wall of thorns" }, { "name": "Green Walk", "desc": "The ravenala can move across undergrowth, natural or magical, without needing to make an ability check and without expending additional movement." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 321, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_ravenala/" }, { "slug": "redcap", "desc": "_This grizzled, weather-beaten creature looks like a sour old man at first glance, complete with scraggly beard. It carries a great pike and wears heavy boots, shod with iron, and the blood-soaked hat jammed on its head is hard to miss. It grins with massive yellow teeth._ \n**Blood-Soaked Caps.** Redcaps are exceedingly dangerous creatures who wear the mark of their cruelty and evil quite literally. The caps from which they take their name define their existence, and they must constantly be revived with fresh blood. \n**Compelled to Kill.** Redcaps aren’t cruel and murderous by choice, but by necessity. A redcap must frequently bathe its cap in fresh, humanoid blood to sustain itself. If it fails to do so every three days, the creature withers and dies quickly. A redcap whose hat is nearly dry is a desperate, violent force of nature that prefers to die in battle rather than waste away to nothing. \n**Bandits and Mercenaries.** Most long-lived redcaps are drawn to serve in marauding armies or make a living through constant banditry.", "name": "Redcap", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 105, "hit_dice": "14d8+42", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 6, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "athletics": 8, "intimidation": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common, Sylvan, Undercommon", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The redcap makes two pike attacks and one bite attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage and the creature is bleeding profusely. A bleeding creature must make a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw at the start of its turn or take 10 (3d6) necrotic damage and continue bleeding. On a successful save the creature takes no necrotic damage and the effect ends. A creature takes only 10 necrotic damage per turn from this effect no matter how many times it's been bitten, and a single successful saving throw ends all bleeding. Spending an action to make a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check or any amount of magical healing also stops the bleeding. Constructs and undead are immune to the bleeding effect.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Pike", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "1d10" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Clomping Boots", "desc": "The redcap has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks." }, { "name": "Red Cap", "desc": "The redcap must soak its cap in the blood of a humanoid killed no more than an hour ago at least once every three days. If it goes more than 72 hours without doing so, the blood on its cap dries and the redcap gains one level of exhaustion every 24 hours. While the cap is dry, the redcap can't remove exhaustion by any means. All levels of exhaustion are removed immediately when the redcap soaks its cap in fresh blood. A redcap that dies as a result of this exhaustion crumbles to dust." }, { "name": "Solid Kick", "desc": "The redcap can kick a creature within 5 feet as a bonus action. The kicked creature must make a successful DC 15 Strength saving throw or fall prone." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 325, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_redcap/" }, { "slug": "rift-swine", "desc": "_This enormous pig is as large as an ox, and its mouth bristles with mismatched tusks. Its body is a lopsided mass of tumorous flesh that gives way to eyes and vestigial mouths, and long tentacles trail from its sides._ \nFrom time to time, a breach forms in the fabric of the multiverse, and the Material Plane is bathed in the energy of alien dimensions. Living creatures exposed to this incursion can undergo horrible mutations, turning into monstrous mockeries of their former shapes. One example of this phenomenon is the rift swine: once-ordinary pigs transformed into slavering horrors after being bathed in eldritch light. \n**Destructive Herds.** Rift swine travel in herds of 5-8 (and larger herds are possible). Their effect on an area can be catastrophic—they eat nearly anything, possess a fiendish cunning, and delight in the destruction they cause. A rift swine has difficulty perceiving anything smaller than itself as a threat, leading it to attack most other creatures on sight and fighting until it is destroyed. \n**Abyssal Meat.** The rumors of vast herds of hundreds of rift swine on strongly chaos-aligned planes, cultivated by the lords of those places, are thankfully unconfirmed.", "name": "Rift Swine", "size": "Large", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 110, "hit_dice": "13d10+39", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 4, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "force, poison", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The rift swine makes one tusks attack and two tentacle attacks." }, { "name": "Tusks", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Tentacle", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC 14). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the rift swine can't use this tentacle against another target.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "360-Degree Vision", "desc": "The rift swine's extra eyes give it advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." }, { "name": "Chaos mutations", "desc": "50% of rift swine have additional mutant features. Choose or roll on the table below.\n\n1 - Acid Boils: A creature that hits the rift swine with a melee attack must make a successful DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or take 3 (1d6) acid damage.\n\n2 - Tentacular Tongue: Instead of using its tusks, the rift swine can attack with its tongue: Melee weapon attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled and restrained as with a tentacle attack (escape DC 14).\n\n3 - Covered in Slime:Increase the rift swine's AC by 1.\n\n4 - Acid Saliva: The rift swine's tusk or tongue attack does an additional 3 (1d6) acid damage.\n\n5 - Poison Spit: Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 15 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d12) poison damage.\n\n6 - Roll Twice" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 326, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_rift-swine/" }, { "slug": "rime-worm-grub", "desc": "_These long, crusty slugs sparkle like ice. A gaping hole at one end serves as a mouth, from which long tendrils emanate._ \nRime worms are sometimes kept as guards by frost giants. \n_**Ice Burrowers.**_ The rime worm’s tendrils help it to burrow through ice and snow as well absorb sustenance from prey. Their pale, almost translucent, skin is coated with ice crystals, making them difficult to spot in their snowy habitat. \n_**Spray Black Ice.**_ The worms are fierce hunters, and their ability to spray skewers of ice and rotting flesh makes them extremely dangerous.", "name": "Rime Worm Grub", "size": "Medium", "type": "Elemental", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 45, "hit_dice": "6d8+18", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 30, "burrow": 20 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 4, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 3, "strength_save": 5, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 5, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 200 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "1", "cr": 1.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The rime worm makes one tendril attack and one gnash attack." }, { "name": "Tendril", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack. +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Gnash", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Born of Rime", "desc": "A rime worm grub can breathe air or water with equal ease." }, { "name": "Ravenous", "desc": "At the grub stage, the worm is painfully hungry. Rime worm grubs can make opportunity attacks against enemies who disengage." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 327, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_rime-worm-grub/" }, { "slug": "roachling-lord", "desc": "_The creature is humanoid but disturbingly roachlike. Its legs are too short, its arms too long, its skin is oily, and its back is covered by a carapace. Atop those features sits an incongruously humanlike face._ \nCombining the worst of human and cockroach qualities, these nimble creatures have a talent for stealth and for fighting dirty. Also known as scuttlers, roachlings are an unpleasant humanoid race—inquisitive and covetous, unclean and ill-mannered—and most other races shun them. \n_**Devious Combatants.**_ Roachlings are skittish and easily frightened, but they aren’t cowards. Rather, they are practical about their weaknesses. They understand survival often depends on remaining unseen and out of reach. Most roachlings prefer to fight only when the chance for victory sits squarely on their side. \nThey also have a well-deserved reputation for deviousness. Roachlings are adept at skulking, underhanded tactics, and hit‑and-run fighting. Filth and trickery are their most useful tools. \n_**Deeply Paranoid.**_ Because they have long been hunted and persecuted, roachlings are naturally suspicious, and they extend their trust slowly. A deep-rooted paranoia infects the race, and unsurprisingly their paranoia often turns out to be justified. \n_**Fused Carapace.**_ Roachlings have prominent, whip-like antennae, a carapace covering much of their backs, and small spines on their legs and arms. They have short, noticeably bowed legs. Hair is unusual among roachlings, but when present, it’s always oily and dark, pressed flat against the skull. \nRoachling coloration varies across tan, yellow, dark brown, and black. Regardless of color, their thick, hardened skin appears shiny and slightly oily although it is dry. Roachlings have an internal skeleton, however, not the exoskeleton of a true insect.", "name": "Roachling Lord", "size": "Small", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "roachling", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 63, "hit_dice": "14d6+14", "speed": { "walk": 25 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 5, "constitution_save": 3, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "acrobatics": 5, "stealth": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 10 ft., passive Perception 9", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The roachling lord makes two melee attacks or throws two darts." }, { "name": "Begrimed Shortsword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Begrimed Dart", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d4" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Resistant", "desc": "The roachling skirmisher has advantage on Constitution saving throws." }, { "name": "Unlovely", "desc": "The skirmisher has disadvantage on Performance and Persuasion checks in interactions with nonroachlings." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 329, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_roachling-lord/" }, { "slug": "roachling-skirmisher", "desc": "_The creature is humanoid but disturbingly roachlike. Its legs are too short, its arms too long, its skin is oily, and its back is covered by a carapace. Atop those features sits an incongruously humanlike face._ \nCombining the worst of human and cockroach qualities, these nimble creatures have a talent for stealth and for fighting dirty. Also known as scuttlers, roachlings are an unpleasant humanoid race—inquisitive and covetous, unclean and ill-mannered—and most other races shun them. \n_**Devious Combatants.**_ Roachlings are skittish and easily frightened, but they aren’t cowards. Rather, they are practical about their weaknesses. They understand survival often depends on remaining unseen and out of reach. Most roachlings prefer to fight only when the chance for victory sits squarely on their side. \nThey also have a well-deserved reputation for deviousness. Roachlings are adept at skulking, underhanded tactics, and hit‑and-run fighting. Filth and trickery are their most useful tools. \n_**Deeply Paranoid.**_ Because they have long been hunted and persecuted, roachlings are naturally suspicious, and they extend their trust slowly. A deep-rooted paranoia infects the race, and unsurprisingly their paranoia often turns out to be justified. \n_**Fused Carapace.**_ Roachlings have prominent, whip-like antennae, a carapace covering much of their backs, and small spines on their legs and arms. They have short, noticeably bowed legs. Hair is unusual among roachlings, but when present, it’s always oily and dark, pressed flat against the skull. \nRoachling coloration varies across tan, yellow, dark brown, and black. Regardless of color, their thick, hardened skin appears shiny and slightly oily although it is dry. Roachlings have an internal skeleton, however, not the exoskeleton of a true insect.", "name": "Roachling Skirmisher", "size": "Small", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "roachling", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 7, "hit_dice": "2d6", "speed": { "walk": 25 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 11, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 9, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 4, "constitution_save": 2, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "acrobatics": 4, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 10 ft., passive Perception 9", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Shortsword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Dart", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d4" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Resistant", "desc": "The roachling skirmisher has advantage on Constitution saving throws." }, { "name": "Unlovely", "desc": "The skirmisher has disadvantage on Performance and Persuasion checks in interactions with nonroachlings." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 329, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_roachling-skirmisher/" }, { "slug": "rotting-wind", "desc": "_A rotting wind brings a chilling gust to the air, turning nearby foliage to rot and raising a sense of dread in all creatures in its path._ \n**Air of Tombs.** A rotting wind is an undead creature made up of the foul air and grave dust sloughed off by innumerable undead creatures within lost tombs and grand necropoli. \n**Scouts for Undead Armies.** A rotting wind carries the foul stench of death upon it, sometimes flying before undead armies and tomb legions or circling around long-extinct cities and civilizations. \n**Withering Crops.** Rotting winds sometimes drift mindlessly across a moor or desert, blighting all life they find and leaving only famine and death in their wake. This is especially dangerous when they drift across fields full of crops; they can destroy an entire harvest in minutes. \n**Undead Nature.** A rotting wind doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Rotting Wind", "size": "Large", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 82, "hit_dice": "11d10+22", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 7, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, grappled, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this), passive Perception 10", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Wind of Decay", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 0 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 14 (4d6) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with tomb rot. The cursed target can't regain hit points, and its hit point maximum decreases by 10 (3d6) for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target's hit point maximum to 0, the target dies and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the remove curse spell or comparable magic.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Air Form", "desc": "The rotting wind can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. It can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." }, { "name": "Befouling Presence", "desc": "All normal plant life and liquid in the same space as a rotting wind at the end of the wind's turn is blighted and cursed. Normal vegetation dies in 1d4 days, while plant creatures take double damage from the wind of decay action. Unattended liquids become noxious and undrinkable." }, { "name": "Invisibility", "desc": "The rotting wind is invisible as per a greater invisibility spell." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 330, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_rotting-wind/" }, { "slug": "rum-gremlin", "desc": "", "name": "Rum Gremlin", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 22, "hit_dice": "5d4+10", "speed": { "walk": 20, "climb": 10, "swim": 10 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 9, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "1/2", "cr": 0.5, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The goblin makes one claw attack and one bite attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d4" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Aura of Drunkenness", "desc": "A rum gremlin radiates an aura of drunkenness to a radius of 20 feet. Every creature that starts its turn in the aura must make a successful DC 12 Constitution saving throw against poison or be poisoned for one hour." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the gremlin's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 11). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: prestidigitation\n\n3/day: hex" }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The gremlin has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 239, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_rum-gremlin/" }, { "slug": "rusalka", "desc": "_A barefoot woman with long hair and almost transparent skin sits upon a willow branch. Her hair and clothing are wet, as if she has just returned from a swim. Her smile seems friendly enough._ \nWhen a woman drowns, her dripping body may rise again as a rusalka. Some claim the drowning must be a suicide. Others say that the water itself must be tainted with murder or some great evil spirit. \n**Near Water.** Rusalkas dwell in the water where they died, emerging only at night. Some climb a nearby tree, dangle their feet in the water, and sing alluring songs. Others sit on the bank, combing their wet tresses and awaiting prey. They must, however, remain in or near the water where they died, as part of their curse. However, during a full moon, the rusalki can leave the water to dance along the shore or the riverbank, singing all night long and inviting young men to join them. \n**Songs and Poetry.** Rusalkas mesmerize and seduce passersby with song and dance and poetry. Young men are their usual victims, but they also prey on curious children, lonely older men, and other heartbroken women. When a potential victim comes near enough, the rusalki entangles the person with her hair and drags him or her beneath the water to drown. \n**Lover’s Walks.** A rusalka cannot pass for human on any but the darkest night, but she might claim to be a lonely tree spirit or a benevolent nymph willing to grant a wish in exchange for a kiss. She may part the water of a lake and coax her victim toward the center with the promise of a kiss—delivered as her hair entraps the victim and the water rushes around him. Alternatively, she may use water walk so she and the victim can stroll across the surface of the water, reward him with a long kiss (to prevent him from catching a deep breath), then end the spell over deep water and drag him to the bottom. \n**Undead Nature.** A rusalka doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Rusalka", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 88, "hit_dice": "16d8+16", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 40 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison; piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Breathless Kiss", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: the target is grappled (escape DC 13) and the rusalka draws all the air from the target's lungs with a kiss. If the rusalka has movement remaining, she drags the grappled creature into deep water, where it begins suffocating.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "0" }, { "name": "Drowning Hair (1/Day)", "desc": "The rusalka's long hair tangles around a creature the rusalka has grappled. The creature takes 33 (6d10) necrotic damage, or half damage with a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw. In addition, until it escapes the rusalka's grapple, it is restrained and has disadvantage on Strength checks to break free of the grapple." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Withered Tresses", "desc": "If a rusalka is kept out of water for 24 consecutive hours, its hair and body dry into desiccated swamp weeds and the creature is utterly destroyed." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the rusalka's innate casting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: control water, suggestion, tongues, water walk (can be ended freely at will)\n\n1/day: dominate person" }, { "name": "Watery Camouflage", "desc": "In dim light or darkness, a rusalka that's underwater is invisible." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 331, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_rusalka/" }, { "slug": "salt-golem", "desc": "_A salt golem is a crudely sculpted, roughly humanoid crystalline form that shuffles about on wide, stump-like feet. Tiny salt crystals fall from its body in a glittering cloud with every step._ \n**Coastal Druids.** These unnatural creatures are created by druids and others living in coastal or desert regions, or by those who seek to wage war with creatures susceptible to the warding powers of salt. Stories tell of a druid who built a squad of nine salt golems to combat a rampaging zmey. The salt warriors waged a long hunt and eventually killed the powerful dragon in its lair while the creator druid and her wizard companion reaped the spoils of its hoard. \n**Crystalline and Silent.** A salt golem has a crudely formed humanoid body made of crystalline salts. It wears no clothing or armor and carries no weapons or other possessions. It cannot speak—the only sound it makes is the susurrus of sliding sand as it moves. A salt golem is incapable of strategy or tactics. It mindlessly fights until it destroys its opponents or until ordered to stop by its creator. \n**Valuable Remains.** A salt golem stands about eight feet tall and weighs around 1,000 lb. A salt golem’s body is formed from a composite of at least 1,000 lb of rare salts and minerals worth at least 2,500 gp. \n**Constructed Nature.** A golem doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Salt Golem", "size": "Large", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 110, "hit_dice": "11d10+55", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 9, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 1, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "athletics": 9 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "fire, poison, psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with adamantine weapons", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "understands the languages of its creator but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "10", "cr": 10.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The golem makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 27 (5d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage and the target must make a successful DC 17 Constitution saving throw or gain one level of exhaustion.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "5d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Blinding Salt Spray", "desc": "Any time the golem is hit in combat, thousands of tiny salt crystals erupt from its body. All creatures within 5 feet of the golem must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or become blinded for 1d3 rounds." }, { "name": "Immutable Form", "desc": "The golem is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The golem has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The golem's weapon attacks are magical." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 235, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_salt-golem/" }, { "slug": "sand-silhouette", "desc": "_Sand silhouettes are spirits of those who died in desperation in sandy ground, buried during sandstorms, thrown into dry wells, or the victims of a dune collapse. Looking like a shadow stretched out along the ground, a sand silhouette’s erratic movements are difficult to discern._ \n**Sand Bodies.** If disturbed or agitated, these restless souls cause the sand around them to swirl and form into a loose vortex that vaguely resembles their physical body in life. They can control these shapes as they controlled their physical bodies. \n**Traceless Movement.** Sand silhouettes glide through the sand without leaving a trace or creating any telltale sign of their approach, which makes it easy for them to surprise even cautious travelers with their sudden attacks from below. \n**Undead Nature.** A sand silhouette doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Sand Silhouette", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 105, "hit_dice": "14d8+42", "speed": { "walk": 30, "burrow": 30 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 7, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, grappled, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "all languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The sand silhouette makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If both attacks hit a Medium or smaller target, the target is grappled (escape DC 14), and the sand silhouette engulfs it.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d6" }, { "name": "Engulf", "desc": "The sand silhouette engulfs a Medium or smaller creature grappled by it. The engulfed target is blinded and restrained, but no longer grappled. It must make a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw at the start of each of the sand silhouette's turns or take 14 (3d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the sand silhouette moves, the engulfed target moves with it. The sand silhouette can only engulf one creature at a time." }, { "name": "Haunted Haboob (Recharge 4-6)", "desc": "The sand silhouette turns into a 60-foot radius roiling cloud of dust and sand filled with frightening shapes. A creature that starts its turn inside the cloud must choose whether to close its eyes and be blinded until the start of its next turn, or keep its eyes open and make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. If the saving throw fails, the creature is frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature repeats the Wisdom saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Camouflage", "desc": "While in desert environments, the sand silhouette can use the Hide action even while under direct observation." }, { "name": "Sand Form", "desc": "The sand silhouette can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." }, { "name": "Sand Glide", "desc": "The sand silhouette can burrow through nonmagical, loose sand without disturbing the material it is moving through. It is invisible while burrowing this way." }, { "name": "Vulnerability to Water", "desc": "For every 5 feet the sand silhouette moves while touching water, or for every gallon of water splashed on it, it takes 2 (1d4) cold damage. If the sand silhouette is completely immersed in water, it takes 10 (4d4) cold damage." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 332, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_sand-silhouette/" }, { "slug": "sandman", "desc": "_Stick-thin and moon-faced with a raptor’s eyes and a mane of hawk feathers, this grinning humanoid pirouettes as nimbly as a dancer. Between its long, taloned fingers trickles sand that gleams with the cold light of stars._ \n**Bringers of Nightmares.** Sandmen are sinister-looking bringers of sleep and dreams. Visiting the mortal world each night, sandmen ensure that their targets slumber deeply and experience vivid dreams that swell the dream realm’s power. Some sandmen develop a talent for a specific flavor of dream; fantasies of lost love or childhood, prophecies and religious visions, or terrible nightmares. \n**Abduct Dreamers.** Powerful dreamers attract both the attention and the protection of sandmen: children, madmen, would-be tyrants, and heroes. They protect such charges fiercely but have also been known to abduct them, taking them on wild adventures to inspire yet greater dreams. To them, all dreams are vital and good, be they uplifting or terrifying. Although they bring horrific nightmares as well as idyllic dreams, sandmen are not specifically baneful. Their actions are motivated by their connection to the dream realm, not by concerns over good and evil. \n**Ethereal Dreamscapes.** When not on the Material Plane, sandmen ride bubble-like dreamscapes through the Ethereal Plane, breaching the Sea of Possibilities, nurturing and harvesting its contents. Sandmen are a common and welcome sight in markets across the Fey Realms, elemental planes, and even in Hell—anywhere that dreams or nightmares are a valuable commodity. They are merciless to any who threaten the sanctity of dreams, but especially dream eaters.", "name": "Sandman", "size": "Medium", "type": "Celestial", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 82, "hit_dice": "11d8+33", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 11, "dexterity": 19, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 19, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 7, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 7, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison, psychic", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned, unconscious", "senses": "truesight 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Celestial, Giant, Infernal, Umbral", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The sandman makes two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Eye-Closer's Curse", "desc": "If a sandman obtains a critical hit or successful surprise attack against an opponent, its talons scratch a rune onto the target's eyeballs that snaps their eyelids shut, leaving them blinded. This effect can be ended with greater restoration, remove curse, or comparable magic." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the sandman's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: darkness, minor illusion, plane shift (at night only), phantom steed, prestidigitation, sleep (11d8)\n\n3/day each: hypnotic pattern, major image\n\n1/day each: dream, phantasmal killer (5d10)" }, { "name": "Stuff of Dreams", "desc": "Made partially from dreams and imagination, a sandman takes only half damage from critical hits and from sneak attacks. All of the attack's damage is halved, not just bonus damage." }, { "name": "Surprise Attack", "desc": "If the sandman hits a surprised creature during the first round of combat, the target takes 14 (4d6) extra damage from the attack." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 333, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_sandman/" }, { "slug": "sap-demon", "desc": "_When a sap demon leaves a tree, its milky amber fluid oozes from an axe wound on a stout maple’s trunk and shapes itself into a small, vaguely humanoid form on the forest floor beside the tree. This languid creature half walks and half flows forward, implacably following the axe wielder’s path to certain revenge._ \n**Tree Oozes.** Sap demons aren’t true demons, but rather are intelligent oozes that form when an enchanted tree is cut or injured. Though typically Small, the larger the sap source is, the larger the resulting creature can be. Over a few hours, they pool into a shape that vaguely resembles their tree’s attacker: for instance, if the tree cutter wore a hat, then a hat may be incorporated into the sap demon’s overall shape. The similarity is faint at best; no one would ever confuse a sap demon for the creature it hunts, because its shape has no sharp features or color other than amber. \n**Called to Vengeance.** Sap demons can pummel their prey with partially-crystallized fists, but they especially enjoy claiming the weapon that wounded their tree and wielding it to deliver a final blow. Once their prey is destroyed, most sap demons return to their tree, but not all do. Some are curious or malevolent enough to explore the world further. \n**Reckless Possessors.** A sap demon can possess another creature by grappling it and oozing down its throat. Once inside, the sap demon dominates its host and makes it bleed as the tree bled. Since the sap demon takes no damage when its host is wounded, it’s free to be as reckless as it likes. It might wander into a town to cause trouble. However, no matter how its new body is bandaged or cured, it never stops bleeding slowly. If the host body is killed, the sap demon oozes out during the next hour and either returns to its tree or seeks another host.", "name": "Sap Demon", "size": "Small", "type": "Ooze", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural", "hit_points": 67, "hit_dice": "15d6+15", "speed": { "walk": 20, "climb": 20 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 6, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "bludgeoning; acid, lightning", "condition_immunities": "blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone", "senses": "blindsight 90 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 12", "languages": "none in its natural form; knows the same languages as a creature it dominates", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The sap demon makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage. If both attacks hit a Medium or smaller target, the target is grappled (escape DC 12), and the sap demon uses Soul Sap on it as a bonus action.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Soul Sap", "desc": "The sap demon slides down the throat of a sleeping, helpless, or grappled living creature of Medium size or smaller. Once inside, the sap demon takes control of its host, as per the dominate monster spell (Wisdom DC 12 negates). While dominated, the host gains blindsight 90 feet. The host drips blood from its ears, nose, eyes, or from a wound that resembles the injury done to the sap demon's tree (1 damage/ hour). Damage inflicted on the host has no effect on the sap demon. If the host dies or is reduced to 0 hit points, the sap demon must leave the body within one hour." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amorphous", "desc": "The sap demon can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." }, { "name": "Season's Change", "desc": "If a sap demon (or its host) takes at least 10 fire damage, it also gains the effect of a haste spell until the end of its next turn. If it takes at least 10 cold damage, it gains the effect of a slow spell until the end of its next turn." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 335, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_sap-demon/" }, { "slug": "sarcophagus-slime", "desc": "_The sarcophagus opens to reveal an eerie, scintillating light. Wisps of gelid amber ectoplasm undulate outward from a quivering mass with a blackened skull at its center._ \n**Vigilant Slime.** Sarcophagus slimes are amorphous undead guardians placed in the tombs of the powerful to guard them and to wreak terrible vengeance on would-be defilers of the ancient crypts. They seethe with baleful energy, and their blackened skulls retain a simple watchfulness. \n**Muddled Origins.** Many sages speculate that the first sarcophagus slime was spawned accidentally, in a mummy creation ritual that gave life to the congealed contents of canopic jars rather than the intended, mummified body. Others maintain sarcophagus slime was created by a powerful necromancer-pharaoh bent on formulating the perfect alchemical sentry to guard his crypt. \n**Death to Tomb Robbers.** These ectoplasmic slimes are the bane of burglars and a constant danger for excavators and antiquarians exploring ruins or tombs. The rituals for their creation have not been entirely lost; modern necromancers still create these undead abominations for their own fell purposes, and tomb robbers are turned into slimes if they lack proper caution. \n**Undead Nature.** A sarcophagus slime doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Sarcophagus Slime", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 11, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 105, "hit_dice": "14d8+42", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": 4, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, necrotic", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned, prone", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 11", "languages": "understands the languages of its creator but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The sarcophagus slime uses its Frightful Presence, uses its Corrupting Gaze, and makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage plus 14 (4d6) acid damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Frightful Presence", "desc": "Each creature of the sarcophagus slime's choice that is within 60 feet of the sarcophagus slime and aware of it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the sarcophagus slime's Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours." }, { "name": "Corrupting Gaze", "desc": "The sarcophagus slime targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. If the target can see the sarcophagus slime, the target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 14 (4d6) necrotic damage and its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken. If this effect reduces a creature's hit point maximum to 0, the creature dies and its corpse becomes a sarcophagus slime within 24 hours. This reduction lasts until the creature finishes a long rest or until it is affected by greater restoration or comparable magic." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amorphous", "desc": "The sarcophagus slime can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 336, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_sarcophagus-slime/" }, { "slug": "scheznyki", "desc": "_These small, vicious fey look like dirty, lazy dwarves dressed in burlap pants and shirts tied on with dirty twine and frayed rope. They are usually bootless with broken, dirty toenails and wearing rough burlap and leather tams as hats._ \n**Corrupted Dwarves.** Nicknamed “vanishers,” these small, vicious, dwarf-like fey haunt abandoned quarries and ancient ruins, killing and robbing unsuspecting visitors. Legend says the scheznykis are lazy dwarves corrupted by the shadow fey, though others claim that these are dwarves who swore allegiance to fey lords and ladies long ago. They live in drowned and abandoned mines, tumbledown ruins, and even in the tomb complexes of long‑departed priests and god-kings. \n**Magical Hats.** Their shadow fey masters have given them magical hats that allow them to fly and become invisible at will. These hats can be stolen and used by adventurers, but the scheznykis fight hard to retrieve them. \n**Arcane Beards.** If an adventurer can successfully grapple a scheznyki, they can attempt to cut the creature’s beard with a magical blade (the beard is AC 15 and has 5 hp). When an attacker successfully cuts off the beard, the scheznyki loses access to all spell-like and spell casting abilities—and the beard hair itself is valuable in making potion inks. \nIf the scheznyki loses its hat and beard at the same time, it falls into a deep, wasting coma and dies in 24 hours or when next exposed to sunlight. When this occurs, the scheznyki’s body crumbles into dust and blows away one round later. If its beard is magically mended or regrown, or its hat restored to its head before this happens, the scheznyki recovers fully and immediately.", "name": "Scheznyki", "size": "Small", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 153, "hit_dice": "18d6+72", "speed": { "walk": 20, "climb": 15 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 15, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": 10, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 10, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Darakhul, Elvish", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The scheznyki makes four war pick attacks or two hand crossbow attacks." }, { "name": "Heavy Pick", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Hand Crossbow", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the scheznyki's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: dancing lights, darkness, detect evil and good, faerie fire, invisibility*, fly*, mage hand, ray of frost (*only when wearing a vanisher hat)\n\n5/day each: magic missile, ray of enfeeblement, silent image\n\n3/day each: locate object (radius 3,000 ft. to locate a vanisher hat), hideous laughter, web\n\n1/day each: dispel magic, dominate person, hold person" }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The scheznyki has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 339, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_scheznyki/" }, { "slug": "shabti", "desc": "_Wearing silver and red enamel pectoral jewelry and stylized armlets, as well as carrying a thin, carved stick, this angular, dark‑eyed human appears almost normal. When it moves, gears clash and whir faintly within it._ \n**Lifelike Servants.** Shabti are constructs made to tend to their masters needs in the afterlife. Dressed in ceremonial regalia, they are sometimes mistaken for living beings by intruders into their ancient tombs, though careful examination reveals faintly glowing hieroglyphs graven into their garments and their bodies. \n**Insane Machines.** Usually driven mad by centuries within its master’s tomb, a shabti fiercely attacks anything that threatens its sworn charge. Some ceaselessly babble ancient scriptures or invocations to the gods of death. \n**Ancient Weapons.** A shabti fights by releasing its serpentine armlets, then using telekinesis against spellcasters while thrashing anyone within reach with archaic but effective stick‑fighting maneuvers. The shabti’s weapon, the nabboot, is a 4-foot stick made of rattan or bundled reeds; this weapon was common in ancient forms of single-stick fighting. Shabti always fight until destroyed. \n**Constructed Nature.** A shabti slime doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Shabti", "size": "Medium", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 102, "hit_dice": "12d8+48", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison, psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with adamantine weapons", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "understands the languages of its creator but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "8", "cr": 8.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The shabti uses Telekinesis and makes two attacks with its nabboot." }, { "name": "Nabboot", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d4 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with tomb taint. The cursed target's speed is reduced to half, and its hit point maximum decreases by 3 (1d6) for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target's hit point maximum to 0, the target dies and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the remove curse spell or comparable magic.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "1d4" }, { "name": "Telekinesis", "desc": "The shabti targets a creature within 60 feet. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Strength check or the shabti moves it up to 30 feet in any direction (including upward), and it is restrained until the end of the shabti's next turn." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Immutable Form", "desc": "The shabti is immune to spells and effects that would alter its form." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The shabti has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The shabti's weapon attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Serpentine Armlets", "desc": "As a bonus action, the shabti commands its armlets to drop to the floor, whereupon they become two giant poisonous snakes. The shabti can mentally direct the serpents (this does not require an action). If the snakes are killed, they dissolve into wisps of smoke which reform around the shabti's forearms, and they can't be turned into snakes for 1 week. These armlets are linked to the shabti at the time of its creation and do not function for other creatures." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 343, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_shabti/" }, { "slug": "shadhavar", "desc": "_Often a shadhavar is first noticed for the haunting melody it makes, and some mistake them for unicorns or fey steeds. On closer inspection, they look like desiccated unicorns, their skeletons clearly visible beneath their taut flesh._ \n**Shadow Horses.** Shadhavar are natives of the plane of Shadow. Although they resemble undead unicorns, they are living creatures imbued with shadow essences. \n**Fey and Undead Riders.** While the shadhavar are intelligent creatures, they sometimes serve as mounts for the shadow fey, noctiny, hobgoblins, wights, or other creatures. They expect to be treated well during such an arrangement; more than one unkind rider has ridden off on a shadhavar and never returned. \n**Deceptive Hunters.** Shadhavar use their hollow horn to play captivating sounds for defense or to draw in prey. They hunt when they must and are not discriminating about their quarry, but shadhavar primarily eat carrion. Despite their horrific appearance, they are not naturally evil.", "name": "Shadhavar", "size": "Large", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural", "hit_points": 97, "hit_dice": "13d10+26", "speed": { "walk": 50 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "understands Elvish and Umbral but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "A shadhavar makes one gore attack and one hooves attack." }, { "name": "Gore", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Hooves", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (3d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "3d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "a shadhavar's innate spellcasting ability score is Charisma (spell save DC 13). It can cast the following spells, requiring no components:\n\nat will: disguise self (as horse or unicorn only)\n\n2/day: darkness (centered on itself, moves with the shadhavar)" }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "A shadhavar's gore attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Plaintive Melody (3/day)", "desc": "As a bonus action, a shadhavar can play a captivating melody through its hollow horn. Creatures within 60 feet that can hear the shadhavar must make a successful DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed until the start of the shadhavar's next turn. A creature charmed in this way is incapacitated, its speed is reduced to 0, and a shadhavar has advantage on attack rolls against it." }, { "name": "Shadesight", "desc": "A shadhavar's darkvision functions in magical darkness." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 344, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_shadhavar/" }, { "slug": "shadow-beast", "desc": "_A mass of shadows and cloudstuff, never touching the ground, a shadow beast may at first look harmless—except for its clawed hands and the glint of its jagged teeth._ \n**Called from the Void.** Shadow beasts are thought to be the result of shadow fey dabbling in the magic of the void. Almost shapeless and largely incorporeal, through an act of will they can form rough semblances of their old bodies when needed. \n**Hate the Past.** The motivations of these creatures are inscrutable. They despise light and anything that reminds them of light or of their former existence. Beyond that, little is understood about them. \n**Cryptic Messages.** Shadow beasts are seldom found in groups, but when they are, they seem to have no difficulty or reluctance about operating and fighting together. They have been known to deliver cryptic and threatening messages, but speaking is difficult for them. At times, they perform arcane rituals with the aid of evil humanoids and the use of dark materials. In these rituals they sacrifice magical energies and life blood as well as the tears of innocents and the souls of the damned.", "name": "Shadow Beast", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 135, "hit_dice": "18d8+54", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 19, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": 6, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Elvish, Umbral, Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The shadow beast makes one bite attack and two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d10" }, { "name": "Shadow Push (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The shadow beast buffets opponents with a gale of animated shadows in a 15-foot cone. Any creatures in the area of effect must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be pushed back 10 feet and knocked prone." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amorphous", "desc": "The shadow beast can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The shadow beast can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the shadow beast's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\n3/day each: fear, telekinesis" }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The beast has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "While in sunlight, the shadow beast has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 345, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_shadow-beast/" }, { "slug": "shroud", "desc": "_Shrouds appear much like they did in life, only translucent and immaterial. Their voices are weak._ \n**Bitter Spirits.** Shrouds are transitional creatures: remnants of wicked people who died but refuse to rest in peace, yet have not grown strong enough to become shadows. They are aggressive enemies of all living creatures and the light that nurtures life. Shrouds blend naturally into darkness, but they stand out starkly in bright light. \n**Thin Outlines.** Shrouds look like flickering shadowy outlines of the people they were before they died, retaining the same height and body type. \n**Repetitive Speech.** Shrouds cannot converse, but they occasionally can be heard cruelly whispering a name, term, or phrase over and over again: something that must have had meaning to them in life. \n**Undead Nature.** A shroud doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Shroud", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 9, "hit_dice": "2d8", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 30 }, "strength": 4, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 2, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "radiant", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "1/8", "cr": 0.125, "actions": [ { "name": "Strength Drain", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) necrotic damage, and the target's Strength score is reduced by one-half that amount. The target dies if this reduces its Strength to 0. Otherwise, the reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest. If a non-evil humanoid dies from this attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "1d4" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amorphous", "desc": "The shroud can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." }, { "name": "Shadow Evolution", "desc": "Shrouds instantly become shadows once they cause a total of 12 damage. Any damage they've suffered is subtracted from the shadow's total hit points or abilities." }, { "name": "Shroud Stealth", "desc": "When in dim light or darkness, the shroud can take the Hide action as a bonus action." }, { "name": "Sunlight Weakness", "desc": "While in sunlight, the shroud has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 348, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_shroud/" }, { "slug": "skitterhaunt", "desc": "_This large vermin moves erratically, leaking noxious fluid from its cracked exoskeleton._ \n**Ooze Vermin.** This parasitic ooze lives in the shells of monstrous vermin, such as scorpions and spiders, that it has infested and killed. A skitterhaunt creature might be mistaken for its original, living version at a glance, but the sluggish, erratic movements and oozing carapace of skitterhaunts quickly reveal their true nature. \n**Wide Range of Prey.** A skitterhaunt infection can decimate whole nests of vermin. When those are in short supply, these oozes move on to prey on other species, such as ants, crabs, tosculi, and sometimes even zombies or reptiles. \n**Hosts Required.** Skitterhaunts can’t survive long outside their host creatures; they quickly liquefy and lose their cohesion. A body abandoned by a skitterhaunt is an eerie, hollowed-out husk with a strong, acidic odor.", "name": "Skitterhaunt", "size": "Large", "type": "Ooze", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 95, "hit_dice": "10d10+40", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 15, "dexterity": 11, "constitution": 19, "intelligence": 1, "wisdom": 7, "charisma": 1, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "acid", "condition_immunities": "blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 8", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The skitterhaunt makes two claw attacks and one sting attack." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) slashing damage plus 5 (1d10) acid damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 12). The skitterhaunt has two claws, each of which can grapple one target.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Sting", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d10 + 2) piercing damage plus 5 (1d10) acid damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d10" }, { "name": "Acid Spray (Recharge 6)", "desc": "The skitterhaunt spits acid in a line 30 feet long and 5 feet wide. Each creature in that line takes 18 (4d8) acid damage, or half damage with a successful DC 14 Dexterity saving throw." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Broken Shell", "desc": "A creature that hits the skitterhaunt with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 5 (1d10) acid damage." }, { "name": "Infest Vermin", "desc": "If the skitterhaunt damages a Medium or smaller beast, it can try to infest it as a bonus action. The damaged creature must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw against disease or become poisoned until the disease is cured. Every 24 hours that elapse, the target must repeat the saving throw, reducing its hit point maximum by 5 (1d10) on a failure. If the disease reduces its hit point maximum to 0, the skitterhaunt has devoured the creature's insides and the affected becomes a skitterhaunt, retaining its outward shell but replacing its flesh with skitterhaunt ooze." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 352, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_skitterhaunt/" }, { "slug": "slow-storm", "desc": "_Wisps of humid wind revolve around this spiny ball. Two massive black eyes and a dark mouth are the only features visible through its static straight quills._ \n**Chaos Aging.** Despite its comical appearance, a slow storm is a creature of chaos, able to visit the pains of old age on the young and fit. It turns the bodies of physically able creatures against them, forcing them to choose between relative inactivity or ever‑increasing pain. \n**Surrounded by Wind.** A slow storm is a smaller creature than the space it occupies, and its vulnerable physical body is protected by a cyclonic wind surrounding it. The slow storm occupies a space 15 feet square, but its physical body occupies just the center 5-foot space. The nucleus of a slow storm is a two-foot radius sphere weighing 75 lb. The rest of the space is “occupied” by protective, high-speed wind. Only the central, physical body is susceptible to damage; the wind is just wind. Enemies using melee weapons with less than 10-foot reach must step into the whirlwind to attack the slow storm. \n**Static Generator.** A slow storm has no internal organs other than its brain, and it lives on the energy and moisture it drains from opponents. Its quills not only deflect debris but also generate a ball of static electricity that delivers a shock attack. \n**Elemental Nature.** A slow storm doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Slow Storm", "size": "Huge", "type": "Elemental", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 19, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 225, "hit_dice": "18d12+108", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 19, "constitution": 22, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 11, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 9, "constitution_save": 11, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire", "damage_immunities": "lightning", "condition_immunities": "prone", "senses": "blindsight 30 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Primordial", "challenge_rating": "15", "cr": 15.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 31 (4d12 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 9 (2d8) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "4d12" }, { "name": "Static Shock (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The slow storm exhales its electrical power in a 30-foot cone. Targets in the area of effect take 54 (12d8) lightning damage, 1d4 Dexterity loss, and suffer bone wrack. A successful DC 18 Constitution saving throw halves the Dexterity loss and prevents the bone wrack." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Bone Wrack", "desc": "When hit by the slow storm's slam or breath weapon attack, the storm absorbs moisture from the living creatures' joints, causing stiffness and pain. In addition to 1d4 Dexterity drain, any creature caught within the slow storm's breath weapon that fails another DC 18 Constitution save suffers crushing pain in bones and joints. Any round in which the pained creature moves, it takes 1d4 necrotic damage per 5 feet moved. Bone wracking pain lasts until the affected creature regains at least 1 point of lost Dexterity." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the slow storm's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 16). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: lightning bolt\n\n3/day: chain lightning" }, { "name": "Storm Form", "desc": "A creature that enters or starts its turn inside the slow storm's whirlwind takes 9 (2d8) force damage. A creature can take this damage just once per round. In addition, ranged missile weapon attacks against the slow storm have disadvantage because of the high-speed wind." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 353, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_slow-storm/" }, { "slug": "sluagh-swarm", "desc": "_Some say the sluagh are fey turned by vampires, while others say they are the evil souls of violent men, who cannot rest and return to kill. Still others claim they are the souls of devilbound gnomes who committed suicide. All agree that they are loathsome by nature._ \n**Cowards Alone.** These tiny, malevolent fey dwell in darkness. Alone they are cowards, but they are rarely encountered alone. They are most active during the winter, especially during winter’s long nights. They usually speak to their victims as they attack, but those shouts are little more than whispers to the ears of their prey. \n**Chilling Touch.** Sluagh feed by using their chilling touch. They devour small animals if nothing more appetizing is available. Their victims are easy to identify; their skin is unnaturally cold, and their features are frozen in fear. \nSwarms of sluagh serve hags, devils, trollkin, and evil fey who know the blood rituals to summon and direct them. Shadow fey and drow send them against other elves, often targeting the defenders of elven settlements, or their spouses and children. \n**Legless Flocks.** Sluagh are tiny, gaunt humanoid creatures the size of a weasel. They have no legs; instead their torso tapers off in a disquieting way. Though they can fly, they can also pull themselves quickly across the ground with their arms. They are always draped in black, though their actual skin and hair are pale white. They have sharp claws and fangs, and their eyes are entirely black. In masses, they somewhat resemble a flock of strange birds.", "name": "Sluagh Swarm", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "Swarm", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 54, "hit_dice": "12d8", "speed": { "walk": 30, "fly": 50 }, "strength": 6, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 11, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "fire", "damage_resistances": "cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Chilling Touch", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 0 ft., one creature in the swarm's space. Hit: 28 (8d6) cold damage or 14 (4d6) cold damage if the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer. The target must make a successful DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be unable to regain hit points. An affected creature repeats the saving throw at the end of its turns, ending the effect on itself with a successful save. The effect can also be ended with a greater restoration spell or comparable magic.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "8d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Lone Slaughs: An individual sluagh has a challenge rating of 1/8 (25 XP), 2 hit points, and does 3 (1d6) cold damage", "desc": "They travel in swarms for a reason." }, { "name": "Swarm", "desc": "The swarm can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny fey. The swarm can't regain hit points or gain temporary hit points." }, { "name": "Shadowy Stealth", "desc": "While in dim light or darkness, the sluagh swarm can take the Hide action as a bonus action." }, { "name": "Sunlight Weakness", "desc": "While in sunlight, the sluagh swarm has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 376, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_sluagh-swarm/" }, { "slug": "smaragdine-golem", "desc": "_This large statue of emerald-green crystal has a humanoid body with the head of an ibis. Tiny symbols and runes are etched into it, and portions are inlaid with bits of gold._ \n**Occult Initiates.** Smaragdine golems are crafted by disciples of occult esoterica to guard their secret meeting halls, sacred texts, and the arcane books of power. \n**Emerald Body.** Though they seem to be made entirely of emeralds (and some are used in their construction), a smaragdine golem’s body is closer to enchanted glass than to gemstones, a sad truth that has disappointed many plunderers. \n**A Maker’s Privilege.** Though smaragdine golems are sometimes given to powerful mages, scholars, theurgists, and hierophants as a token of esteem, they are always subject first to the magic and orders of their creators. \n**Constructed Nature.** A golem doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Smaragdine Golem", "size": "Large", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 231, "hit_dice": "22d10+110", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 24, "dexterity": 11, "constitution": 21, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 1, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison, psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with adamantine weapons", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "understands the languages of its creator but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "14", "cr": 14.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The golem makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 25 (4d8 + 7) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 12, "damage_dice": "4d8" }, { "name": "Release Spell", "desc": "The golem can release an absorbed spell effect as a blast of green energy, which blasts out as a sphere centered on the golem with a radius of 10 feet per level of the absorbed spell. All creatures in the area of effect other than the golem takes 7 (2d6) lightning damage per level of the absorbed spell, or half damage with a successful DC 18 Dexterity saving throw. Creatures that fail the saving throw are also blinded until the end of the golem's next turn." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Immutable Form", "desc": "The golem is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The golem has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The golem's weapon attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Absorb Magic", "desc": "As a bonus action, the golem targets any creature, object, or magical effect within 10 feet of it. The golem chooses a spell already cast on the target. If the spell is of 3rd level or lower, the golem absorbs the spell and it ends. If the spell is of 4th level or higher, the golem must make a check with a +9 modifier. The DC equals 10 + the spell's level. On a successful check, the golem absorbs the spell and it ends. The golem's body glows when it absorbs a spell, as if under the effect of a light spell. A smaragdine golem can only hold one absorbed spell at a time." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 236, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_smaragdine-golem/" }, { "slug": "son-of-fenris", "desc": "_The dread sons of Fenris are hideously strong and dangerous in their mastery of the arcane. Their acidic breath stinks of death, and they move with a menacing grace. Eldritch blood runs in their veins._ \n**Demonic Wolves.** Demonic black eyes, two snakelike tongues, and green-black scales beneath their thick black fur betray their unnatural origins. Although the sons of Fenris are powerful spellcasters, they prefer physical violence, using their spells only if faced with foes they cannot simply tear apart. \n**Hibernate Until Ravenous.** Sons of Fenris are creatures of hunger, rage, and madness. They can subsist on infrequent gorging, so they slumber beneath the snow for weeks or months, waking when they grow ravenous or when prey approaches close enough to smell. When hunting, they revel in wanton savagery and destruction, killing entire flocks or herds to delight in blood and to cast runes among the entrails. \n**Desperate Worshipers.** Despite their fierce nature, all the sons of Fenris are wise in divine lore, and desperate souls offer them worship and sacrifice in exchange for aid. The sons of Fenris enjoy this adulation, and provide protection, meat, and wisdom to their followers. In some cases, they gather enormous war bands over winter and going reaving in the spring.", "name": "Son Of Fenris", "size": "Huge", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 175, "hit_dice": "14d12+84", "speed": { "walk": 60, "burrow": 15 }, "strength": 26, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 23, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 18, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": 10, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 8, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "arcana": 7, "intimidation": 6, "religion": 12 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "psychic, radiant", "damage_immunities": "cold, lightning, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "truesight 60 ft., tremorsense 100 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "Common, Celestial, Draconic, Elvish, Dwarvish, Giant, Infernal, telepathy 60 ft.", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The son of Fenris makes one bite attack and one slam attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (2d10 + 8) piercing damage plus 5 (1d10) poison damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 18). If the target was already grappled, it is swallowed instead. While swallowed, the target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects from outside the son of Fenris, and it takes 28 (8d6) acid damage at the start of each of the son of Fenris's turns. It can swallow only one creature at a time. If it takes 45 damage or more on a single turn from the swallowed creature, it must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate the creature, which falls prone in a space within 10 feet of the son of Fenris. If the son of Fenris dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse by using 15 feet of movement, exiting prone.", "attack_bonus": 12, "damage_dice": "2d10" }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (2d10 + 8) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 12, "damage_dice": "2d10" }, { "name": "Acid Breath (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The son of Fenris exhales acid in a 60-foot line that is 10 feet wide. Each creature in the line takes 45 (10d8) acid damage, or half damage with a successful DC 18 Dexterity saving throw." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Keen Hearing and Smell", "desc": "The son of Fenris has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The son of Fenris' weapon attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Arctic Tunneler", "desc": "While in snow or ice, the Son of Fenris' burrow speed increases to 30 ft." }, { "name": "Spellcasting", "desc": "the son of Fenris is a 15th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell attacks). It requires no material components to cast its spells. It has the following cleric spells prepared:\n\ncantrips (at will): guidance, light, sacred flame, spare the dying, thaumaturgy\n\n1st level (4 slots): bane, command, guiding bolt, sanctuary\n\n2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, hold person, silence\n\n3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, bestow curse, dispel magic\n\n4th level (3 slots): banishment, death ward, locate creature\n\n5th level (2 slots): contagion, scrying\n\n6th level (1 slot): harm\n\n7th level (1 slot): plane shift\n\n8th level (1 slot): earthquake" }, { "name": "Trampling Charge", "desc": "If the son of Fenris moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and hits it with a slam attack on that turn, that target must succeed on a DC 18 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If it is knocked prone, the son of Fenris can make another slam attack against it as a bonus action." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 355, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_son-of-fenris/" }, { "slug": "spark", "desc": "_This mote of electrical energy floats menacingly, erupting in a shower of sparks and tendrils of lightning. When it disappears, it leaves only the whiff of ozone._ \n**Born in Storms.** When a great storm rips across a world in the Material Plane, it sometimes tears loose the fabric of reality, releasing sentient creatures composed entirely of elemental energy. Fueled by its frenetic thought patterns and erratic actions, a spark jolts through its new world to find a physical body, drawn by an urge to know form. \n**Symbionts and Twins.** Some spellcasters deliberately seek out sparks for symbiosis. Sorcerers or clerics devoted to deities of the elements may reach an agreement with these creatures, allowing them to ride within their bodies for their entire lifetime. \nOccasionally when a spark forms, an oppositely charged mate is created at the same time. When this happens, the two always stay within 300 feet of one another. Sparks rarely survive longer than a year, even within a symbiotic relationship with a mortal form. When they expire, they simply wink out and return to the elemental planes. \n**Seek Strong Hosts.** When a formless spark senses a potential body approaching, it dims its light or enters a metallic object. Sparks prefer to inhabit creatures with high Strength over other possible targets. Once in control of a body, the spark uses the new vessel to deliver shocking grasp attacks or to cast lightning bolt or call lightning against distant enemies. If ejected from a creature, a spark immediately tries to inhabit another. \n**Elemental Nature.** A spark doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Spark", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Elemental", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 84, "hit_dice": "13d4+52", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 10, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 4, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 17, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, fire, force, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "lightning", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common, Primordial", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Inhabit", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: The target must succeed on a DC 14 Charisma saving throw or become dominated by the spark, as the dominate person spell. The spark instantly enters the target's space and merges into the target's physical form. While inhabiting a creature, a spark takes no damage from physical attacks. The target creature receives a +4 bonus to its Dexterity and Charisma scores while it's inhabited. The speech and actions of an inhabited creature are noticeably jerky and erratic to any creature with passive Perception 14 or higher. Each time the spark uses innate spellcasting, the host can attempt another DC 14 Charisma saving throw. A successful save expels the spark, which appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the former host. The inhabiting spark slowly burns out its host's nervous system. The inhabited creature must make a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw at the end of each 24 hour-period or take 2d6 lightning damage and have its maximum hit points reduced by the same amount. The creature dies if this damage reduces its hit point maximum to 0. The reduction lasts until the inhabited creature completes a long rest after the spark is expelled." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the spark's innate casting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: shocking grasp\n\n3/day: lightning bolt\n\n1/day: call lightning" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 357, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_spark/" }, { "slug": "spectral-guardian", "desc": "_A luminous green mist swirls into the form of an ancient warrior. Dented armor and a ragged cloak enshroud the warrior’s skeletal body, and its grinning skull leers out from an open helm._ \n**Worn Finery.** Composed of faintly glowing green vapor, the spectral guardian is a skeletal being encased in ancient armor or noble’s finery. The cloth is worn and tattered, spiraling away into mist at the edges, and the creature glides with the faintest whisper of sound like a mournful moan from far away. \n**Eternal Disgrace.** The spectral guardian is the spirit of an ancient warrior or noble, bound to serve in death as it failed to do in life. A broken oath, an act of cowardice, or a curse laid down by the gods for a terrible betrayal leaves an indelible mark on a soul. \nAfter the cursed creature’s death, its spirit rises, unquiet, in a place closely related to its disgrace. Compelled by the crushing weight of its deeds, the spectral guardian knows no rest or peace, and viciously snuffs out all life that intrudes upon its haunt. \n**Undead Nature.** A spectral guardian doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Spectral Guardian", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 110, "hit_dice": "13d8+52", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 6, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold, necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "understands the languages it knew in life but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The spectral guardian makes two spectral rend attacks." }, { "name": "Spectral Rend", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened and have its speed reduced to 0; both effects last until the end of its next turn.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The spectral guardian can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object." }, { "name": "Tomb Bound", "desc": "The spectral guardian is bound to the area it defends. It can't move more than 100 feet from the place it is bound to protect." }, { "name": "Withering Miasma", "desc": "A creature that starts its turn in the spectral guardian's space must make a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 18 (4d8) necrotic damage and its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken. This reduction lasts until the creature finishes a long rest." }, { "name": "Variant: Arcane Guardian", "desc": "some spectral guardians were not warriors in life, but powerful magic users. An arcane guardian has a challenge rating of 8 (3,900 XP) and the following added trait: Spellcasting. The arcane guardian is a 9th level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). The guardian knows the following sorcerer spells, which do not require material components:\n\ncantrips (at will): acid splash, chill touch, dancing lights,minor illusion, ray of frost\n\n1st level (4 slots): mage armor, ray of sickness\n\n2nd level (3 slots): darkness, scorching ray\n\n3rd level (3 slots): fear, slow, stinking cloud\n\n4th level (3 slots): blight, ice storm\n\n5th level (1 slot): cone of cold" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 358, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_spectral-guardian/" }, { "slug": "spider-thief", "desc": "_This clockwork spider creature is the size of a dog. Each of its eight sharp, sickle-like feet stabs or sinks slightly into the ground. Razor wire enwraps its body, while gyros whirl visibly in its faceless, clockwork head._ \n**Wire Fighters.** A spider thief never initiates combat unless ordered to, but it always defends itself against attack. Its initial attack is whirling its razor line to entangle a target. Once it snares a foe, the spider thief keeps attacking that target until it stops resisting or it escapes from the spider’s wire. By then, it should be ready to ensnare a new victim. \n**Completely Loyal.** This clockwork machine follows orders from its master even if they lead to its destruction, and it fights until destroyed or told to stand down. The machine recognizes only its creator as its master. \n**Guild Tools.** The spider thief got its name because its ability to climb walls and to effortlessly cross gaps between buildings up to 20 feet wide makes it an excellent accomplice for enterprising thieves. Some thieves guilds make extensive use of them, and many freelance rogues use them as partners. \n**Constructed Nature.** A spider thief doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Spider Thief", "size": "Small", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 54, "hit_dice": "12d6+12", "speed": { "walk": 30, "climb": 20 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 1, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "fire", "damage_immunities": "poison, psychic", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "understands Common but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The spider thief makes two sickle claw attacks." }, { "name": "Sickle Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d8 + 1) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Razor Line (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) slashing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 10). Instead of moving, the spider thief can retract the razor line and pull itself onto the grappled creature (the spider thief enters and remains in the target's space). The spider thief's sickle claw attacks have advantage against a grappled creature in the same space. If the grappled creature escapes, the spider thief immediately displaces into an unoccupied space within 5 feet.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "1d4" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Immutable Form", "desc": "The spider thief is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The spider thief has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Wire-Assisted Jump", "desc": "If its razor line attack is available, a spider thief can use its movement to leap 20 feet in any direction by launching the wire like a spider's web so that it spears or snags an object, then immediately reeling it back in. It can carry up to 25 lb. of additional weight while moving this way. Moving this way doesn't expend its razor line attack." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 366, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_spider-thief/" }, { "slug": "spire-walker", "desc": "_This miniscule creature kicks up a ghostly, sparkling fire when it jostles and jigs. Lightning sparks fly between it and its perch._ \n**Storm Dancers.** When storm clouds gather over cities, harbors, and twisted badlands, electrical energy fills the air. During these times, miniscule fey dance on church steeples, desolate peaks, and ships’ masts. \nAlso called corposanti by scholars, spire walkers are nature spirits that delight in grandiose displays of thunderbolts. They can be found frolicking in a thunderstorm or keeping company with blue dragons or storm giants—though these larger creatures often chase them off for being a nuisance. \n**Small and Metallic.** These spire walkers stand no more than a foot tall, with dusky blue-gray skin and shocks of silvery, slate, or pale blue hair. Spire walkers prefer clothing in metallic hues with many buttons, and they always carry a handful of tiny copper darts that they hurl at each other during their incomprehensible games. When excited, they emit a sparking glow from the tips of their noses, eyebrows, ears, and pointy shoes. \nThey play rough-and-tumble games among themselves and enjoy pranking bystanders with frightening but mostly harmless electric shocks. If a spire walker perishes during the fun, the others pause just long enough to say “awww, we’ll miss you” and go through their comrade’s pockets before continuing with the game. \n**Love Copper and Amber.** Spire walkers like gold but they love copper. They prefer it over all other metals, and they keep the copper pieces in their pockets brilliantly polished. They also value amber gems. Among a group of spire walkers, the leader is not the cleverest or most ruthless, but the one displaying the most ostentatious amber jewel.", "name": "Spire Walker", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 38, "hit_dice": "11d4+22", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 3, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "piercing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "lightning, thunder", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 10", "languages": "Common, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Lightning Dart", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage plus 9 (2d8) lightning damage. If the attack misses, the target still takes 4 (1d8) lightning damage. Whether the attack hits or misses its intended target, every other creature within 10 feet of the target takes 9 (2d8) lightning damage, or half damage with a successful DC 14 Dexterity saving throw.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Energized Body", "desc": "A creature that hits the spire walker with a melee attack using a metal weapon takes 5 (1d10) lightning damage." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the spire walker's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). The spire walker can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: produce spark (as the cantrip produce flame, but it does lightning damage)\n\n3/day each: dancing lights, feather fall, invisibility\n\n1/day each: faerie fire, thunderwave" }, { "name": "Steeple Step", "desc": "The spire walker can use 10 feet of its movement to step magically from its position to the point of a steeple, mast, or other spire-like feature that is in view within 30 feet. The spire walker has advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks and Dexterity saving throws while it is standing on a steeple or any similar narrow, steep structure or feature." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 367, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_spire-walker/" }, { "slug": "steam-golem", "desc": "_With wicked axe blades fastened along its arms and bronze runes inlaid on its armored torso, a steam golem is a smooth-running machine of death._ \n**Magic Weapons.** The golem’s weapon attacks are magical. \n**Boilers and Hydraulics.** A steam golem is built around a central boiler with clockwork gears and hydraulic cylinders powering its legs and arms. Most steam golems have axe blades welded onto each of their arms, and many can extend one arm into a single, long-hafted axe for additional reach. They tower 10 feet tall, and their legs are often built with reversed knee joints for greater leverage when they move. The eyes of a steam golem glow orange or red from its internal fires. \n**Steam Whistle.** A steam golem has four to six vents for releasing steam. These whistles are mounted over the shoulders and can be heard at distances up to a mile in open terrain. \n**Fuel Required.** A steam golem’s machinery consumes 30 lb. of coal and 100 gallons of water per day if it engages in more than brief combat. When resting or standing guard, a steam golem needs just one third of those amounts. \n**Constructed Nature.** A golem doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Steam Golem", "size": "Large", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 171, "hit_dice": "18d10+72", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 26, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 1, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "fire, poison, psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with adamantine weapons", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "understands its creator's languages but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "13", "cr": 13.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The steam golem makes two ax arm attacks, or one long axe attack." }, { "name": "Ax Arm", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (4d6 + 8) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 13, "damage_dice": "4d6" }, { "name": "Long Axe", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 40 (5d12 + 8) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 13, "damage_dice": "5d12" }, { "name": "Steam Blast (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "A steam golem can release a blast of steam. The golem chooses whether to affect a 5-foot radius around itself or a 20-foot cube adjacent to itself. Creatures in the affected area take 38 (7d10) fire damage, or half damage with a successful DC 17 Constitution saving throw." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Whistle", "desc": "When an opponent within 30 feet of the golem tries to cast a spell, the steam golem can emit a shriek from its twin steam whistles. The spellcaster must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. If the save succeeds, the spell is cast normally. If it fails, the spell is not cast; the spell slot is not used, but the caster's action is." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Boiler Weakness", "desc": "A steam golem that's immersed in water or whose boiler is soaked with at least 20 gallons of water (such as from a water elemental) may be stopped in its tracks by the loss of steam pressure in the boiler. In the case of a water elemental, dousing a steam golem destroys the elemental and the golem must make a DC 20 Constitution saving throw. If it succeeds, the water instantly evaporates and the golem continues functioning normally. If it fails, the golem's fire is extinguished and the boiler loses pressure. The steam golem acts as if affected by a slow spell for 1d3 rounds, then becomes paralyzed until its fire is relit and it spends 15 minutes building up pressure." }, { "name": "Immutable Form", "desc": "The golem is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form." }, { "name": "Extend Long Ax", "desc": "A steam golem can extend or retract one arm into long ax form as a bonus action." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The golem has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The golem's weapon attacks are magical." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 237, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_steam-golem/" }, { "slug": "stuhac", "desc": "_This pale-skinned, white-bearded hermit wears a winter cloak and travels the mountain paths, cliff sides, and trade routes alone._ \n**Feigns Weakness.** Living in isolated mountain passes and foraging along little-traveled slopes, the stuhac is a master of stealth and deception. Wrapping heavy furs around itself, it poses as a feeble hermit or traveler needing assistance. Only after its victims have been lured away from warmth and safety does the stuhac drop its disguise and show its true nature: the withered traveler's gnarled hands uncurl to reveal jagged yellow claws, its cataract-ridden eyes are exposed as waxen orbs wobbling loosely in their sockets; throwing open its cloak, it proudly shows off woven layers of yellowed tendon and ligament. \n**Hideous Garments.** The stuhac’s most prized possessions are its “clutters,” garments woven of layered and tangled ligaments and tendons. These grisly trophies are taken from scores of victims, and stuhacs treasure each bit of their disgusting attire. When two stuhac meet, they compare their garb, swapping anecdotes of their most horrifying kills and deceptions. \nStuhacs weave new ligaments into their clutters while their still-living victims watch. Lying in crippled agony, they cannot flee as the stuhac tears fresh material from their bodies for its garments. To keep screams from disturbing their work, these monsters sever their victim’s vocal chords. \n**Devour Victims.** Once its clutters are done, the stuhac feeds on its live victim, devouring everything but the bones. Finding a clean-picked humanoid skeleton along a mountain path is a reliable sign of a stuhac’s presence. \nBecause female stuhacs have never been reported, some believe that these fiends mate with demons, hags, or lamias. Others believe stuhacs are part of a hideous malediction, a recipe for immortality that requires the subject to devour its own kind.", "name": "Stuhac", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 190, "hit_dice": "20d8+100", "speed": { "walk": 40, "climb": 40 }, "strength": 22, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 15, "strength_save": 11, "dexterity_save": 9, "constitution_save": 10, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 7, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 12 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, fire; bludgeoning and piercing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold, poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Infernal; telepathy 100 ft.", "challenge_rating": "13", "cr": 13.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The stuhac makes two claw attacks and one bite attack, or two claw attacks and one hobble." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (4d6 + 6) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "4d6" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 29 (5d8 + 6) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "5d8" }, { "name": "Hobble", "desc": "A stuhac can cripple a creature by telekinetically tearing its tendons and ligaments. A stuhac can target one creature within 100 feet. The target must make a successful DC 16 Constitution saving throw or take 13 (3d8) force damage and its speed is reduced by 20 feet. Magical movement (flight, teleportation, etc.) is unaffected. This damage can only be cured through magical healing, not by spending hit dice or resting." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Mountain Stride", "desc": "Mountain slopes and stone outcroppings pose no obstacle to a stuhac's movement. In mountainous areas, it scrambles through difficult terrain without hindrance." }, { "name": "Powerful Leap", "desc": "The stuhac can jump three times the normal distance: 66 feet horizontally or 27 feet vertically with a running start, or half those distances from a stationary start." }, { "name": "Shapechanger", "desc": "The stuhac can use its action to polymorph into one of two forms: that of an elderly humanoid male, and its natural form. It cannot alter either form's appearance or capabilities using this ability, and damage sustained in one form transfers to the other form." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 370, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_stuhac/" }, { "slug": "stygian-fat-tailed-scorpion", "desc": "_The black carapace gleams in the desert sun, and its tail drips translucent venom. Even the largest lion avoids this scorpion._ \n**Highly Venomous.** Known for its small size and aggressive behavior, the Stygian fat-tailed scorpion brings a swift death to those who feel its toxic sting. \n**Pit Traps.** A Stygian fat-tailed scorpion is no more than a foot long, with a tail about the same length. It weighs no more than 5 pounds for the largest specimens—they make excellent guard animals that require little food or care, and are often kept at the bottom of pits or in rarely used tunnels. \n**Valuable Venom.** A dose of fat-tailed scorpion venom can be worth 4,000 gp or more to the right buyer.", "name": "Stygian Fat-Tailed Scorpion", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 10, "hit_dice": "4d4", "speed": { "walk": 30, "climb": 20 }, "strength": 3, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 1, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 2, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The scorpion makes three attacks: two with its claws and one with its sting." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1" }, { "name": "Sting", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage, plus 21 (6d6) poison damage and the target is poisoned until it completes a short or long rest. A successful DC 10 Constitution saving throw reduces the poison damage to half and prevents the poisoned condition. If the target fails this saving throw while already poisoned, it gains one level of exhaustion in addition to the other effects.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "6d6+1" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": null, "spell_list": [], "page_no": 340, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_stygian-fat-tailed-scorpion/" }, { "slug": "subek", "desc": "_For most of the year the subek are a kindly race, advising others and lending their physical and intellectual prowess to local projects. During the flood season, however, subek become violent and territorial, ruthlessly killing and consuming all trespassers._ \n**Riverbank Homes.** Subek are crocodile-headed humanoids that dwell along the banks of great rivers. They are tailless, possessing muscular physiques, surprisingly dexterous hands, and a frightening maw of sharp teeth. They are 9 feet tall, average 700 lb., and can live up to 300 years. \nDuring the dry season, subek are friendly, thoughtful scholars, historians, and artisans. \n**Flood Fever.** Subek are well aware of their destructive and violent nature. When the waters rise, they distance themselves from other cultures, warning locals to keep away until the river recedes. Most migrate up or down river to an area with few inhabitants; some even construct underground prisons or cages and pay brave retainers to keep them locked up and fed during their time of savagery. \nDuring flood fever, subek do not recognize friends or colleagues. They discard all trappings of civilization and kill nonsubek creatures indiscriminately. Once the fever clears, they remember nothing of their actions, though they are surrounded by undeniable, grisly reminders. \n**Keep Their Distance.** Despite the danger, subek are tolerated and even prized for their skill as engineers, historians, and teachers. They live on the outskirts of many human towns, maintaining a cautious distance from their neighbors. Subek marriage is pragmatic; they live with a mate long enough to foster a single egg and raise the hatchling for a decade before parting ways. \nSubek scholars and oracles debate their duality. Some believe it to be an ancient curse, a shared ancestry with northern trolls, or some loathsome and primitive part of their soul exerting control. A rare few—shamans and oracles, mostly—embrace their duality and choose to live year-round in remote regions far from civilization.", "name": "Subek", "size": "Large", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "subek", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful neutral", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 76, "hit_dice": "8d10+32", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 20 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "history": 5, "investigation": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The subek makes one bite attack and one claws attack. If both attacks hit the same target, the subek can make a thrash attack as a bonus action against that target." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (4d8 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "4d8" }, { "name": "Thrash", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d10) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d10" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Hold Breath", "desc": "The subek can hold its breath for 15 minutes." }, { "name": "Flood Fever", "desc": "During flood season, the subek is overcome with bloodthirsty malice. Its alignment shifts to chaotic evil, it gains the Blood Frenzy trait, and it loses the capacity to speak Common and its bonuses to History and Investigation." }, { "name": "Blood Frenzy", "desc": "The subek has advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that doesn't have all its hit points." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 371, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_subek/" }, { "slug": "suturefly", "desc": "_These darting creatures resemble dragonflies, but with three pairs of gossamer wings and a body made from splintered wood. Flashes of bright colors run along their bodies._ \n**Sew Mouths Shut.** Forest folk rarely speak when sutureflies dart through the trees, because these creatures listen for lies and sew any offender’s mouth, nose, and eyes shut. Some say the old woods hide nothing but liars, and that is why the deepest forest is shrouded in silence. Others say that the forest uses sutureflies to smother those who break its covenants or reveal its secrets. \nAdventurers see a suturefly’s handiwork more often than they glimpse one of the creatures directly: corpses with mouths and noses stitched shut lie in the underbrush, mysterious children whose mouths are ringed with black puncture marks observe intruders from afar, and dryads step from trees, their eyes sewn shut against the evils of civilization. \n**Seek Out Curses.** Numerous suturefly varieties exist. Some attack based on verbal triggers other than lies. Black‑banded sutureflies, for instance, detect curses and religious blasphemies. \nWhen attacking, sutureflies dart from hiding to gain surprise. Once they sew someone’s mouth closed, they target the same victim’s nose, unless threatened by another opponent. Sutureflies attack until they have sewn all of their opponents’ mouths, eyes and noses closed or until they’re destroyed.", "name": "Suturefly", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 7, "hit_dice": "3d4", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 10, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 1, "dexterity": 19, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 1, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 4, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Sew", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage, and the suturefly sews the target's mouth, nose, or eye closed. With supernatural speed, the suturefly repeatedly pierces the target's face, each time threading a loop of the target's own skin through the previous hole. These skin loops rapidly blacken, shrink, and draw the orifice tightly closed. It takes two actions and a sharp blade to sever the loops and reopen the orifice, and the process causes intense pain and 2 slashing damage. A victim whose mouth and nose have been sewn shut begins suffocating at the start of his or her next turn.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Camouflage", "desc": "A suturefly in forest surroundings has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks." }, { "name": "Detect Blasphemy", "desc": "The most common variety of suturefly attacks any creature that blasphemes aloud, which it can detect at a range of 100 feet unless the blasphemer makes a successful DC 13 Charisma saving throw." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 372, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_suturefly/" }, { "slug": "swamp-adder", "desc": "_A vicious snake with a squat, diamond-shaped head, a puffed neck, and a peculiar yellow band around its body, the swamp adder is a stout, somewhat lethargic hunter._ \n_**Marsh Hunter.**_ This venomous snake—sometimes known as the “speckled band”—is native to the marshes of southern realms, where it devours waterfowl and incautious halflings. \n_**Bred for Venom.**_ The swamp adder is simultaneously feared and prized for its potent paralytic venom. A swamp adder is quite thin, though it may grow up to 12 feet long and the largest weigh as much as 50 pounds. A dose of paralytic swamp adder venom is worth 3,000 gp or more on the black market.", "name": "Swamp Adder", "size": "Small", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 18, "hit_dice": "4d6+4", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 4, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 1, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 4, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "blindsight 10 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage, and the target must make a successful DC 11 saving throw or become poisoned. While poisoned this way, the target is paralyzed and takes 3(1d6) poison damage at the start of each of its turns. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself with a success.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Swamp Camouflage", "desc": "The swamp adder has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks while in swamp terrain." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 354, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_swamp-adder/" }, { "slug": "tosculi-drone", "desc": "The tosculi are a race of wasp-folk that share the Golden Song of the hive, which unites them under the command and iron rule of their queen. Each hive has its own song, and most tosculi hives are predatory, dangerous places—quick to turn to banditry, cattle theft, and raiding against small villages. \nThose few tosculi who do not hear their queen’s Golden Song are the Hiveless, driven out of the embrace of the hive to attempt survive on their own. \nTosculi drones are the workers of the tosculi hive; the smallest, weakest, least intelligent, and most abundant of the wasp folk. Their carapaces are mostly iridescent blue with gold abdomens and lower legs. A drone stands between 3 and 4 feet tall, and weighs around 50 lb. They have only vestigial wings, so they can glide but not truly fly. \n**One-Way Scouts.** Drones function primarily as menial workers but, during time of war, they also act as highly expendable scouts and soldiers. Because the warriors know whatever a drone knows (thanks to the hive-queen), a drone doesn’t need to survive its scouting mission to deliver useful information.", "name": "Tosculi Drone", "size": "Small", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 22, "hit_dice": "4d6+8", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 8, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 4, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Tosculi", "challenge_rating": "1/2", "cr": 0.5, "actions": [ { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d4" }, { "name": "Light Crossbow", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Gliding Wings", "desc": "The tosculi drone can use its wings to slowly descend when falling (as if under the effect of the feather fall spell). It can move up to 5 feet horizontally for every foot it falls. The tosculi drone can't gain height with these wings alone. If subjected to a strong wind or lift of any kind, it can use the updraft to glide farther." }, { "name": "Skittering", "desc": "Up to two tosculi can share the same space at one time. The tosculi has advantage on melee attack rolls while sharing its space with another tosculi that isn't incapacitated." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 386, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_tosculi-drone/" }, { "slug": "tosculi-warrior", "desc": "The tosculi are a race of wasp-folk that share the Golden Song of the hive, which unites them under the command and iron rule of their queen. Each hive has its own song, and most tosculi hives are predatory, dangerous places—quick to turn to banditry, cattle theft, and raiding against small villages. \nThose few tosculi who do not hear their queen’s Golden Song are the Hiveless, driven out of the embrace of the hive to attempt survive on their own. \nTosculi warriors are overseers of work crews and battle groups of drones, directing activities and relaying commands from higher up in the hive mind. They are entirely subservient to the hivequeen’s orders, but if ordered to act independently or to follow their own best judgment, they’re capable of doing so. Warriors are almost never encountered without drones, and tower over them. They stand 4 to 5 feet tall and weigh up to 70 pounds. \n**Host Finders.** The warriors’ most important role in the hive, however, is procuring live hosts for tosculi eggs to hatch in. Creatures paralyzed by warriors are brought to the queen’s chamber to have eggs implanted in them. An egg hatches in 1d6 weeks, and the ravenous larva devours its still-living (but mercifully unconscious) host.", "name": "Tosculi Warrior", "size": "Small", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 58, "hit_dice": "9d6+27", "speed": { "walk": 20, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 12, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Tosculi", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The tosculi warrior makes one bite attack, one claws attack, and one stinger attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d4 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d4" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d4 + 5) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d4" }, { "name": "Stinger", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d4 + 5) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw against poison or be paralyzed for 1 minute. A paralyzed target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d4" }, { "name": "Prepare Host", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one paralyzed creature. Hit: 10 (2d4 + 5) piercing damage, and the target is paralyzed for 8 hours. The paralysis can be ended with a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Medicine) check or by a spell or magical effect that cures disease. (Because only paralyzed creatures can be targeted, a hit by this attack is automatically a critical hit; bonus damage is included in the damage listing.)", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d4" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Skittering", "desc": "Up to two tosculi can share the same space at one time. The tosculi has advantage on attack rolls while sharing its space with another tosculi that isn't incapacitated." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 386, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_tosculi-warrior/" }, { "slug": "treacle", "desc": "_A curious bunny, an abandoned infant, or a delicate songbird can spell slow and agonizing death for the unprepared. Beneath any of these facades may lurk a treacle waiting to feed on a gullible victim, mewling and cooing all the while. Whether by natural selection or arcane tampering, these compact oozes prey on kindness._ \n**Diet of Blood.** Treacles feed on blood but lack the natural weapons or acid of larger slimes. To survive, prey must welcome and embrace them, unaware of the threat. The treacles’ soft bodies absorb psychic impressions and take the shape of unthreatening creatures. In the wild, treacles assume the form of an animal’s offspring to lie close for several hours. \n**Pet Polymorph.** Among humanoids, treacles transform into pets, infants, or injured animals. In the most horrific cases, these oozes resemble children’s toys. Treacles don’t choose their forms consciously, but instead rely on a primitive form of telepathy to sense which shapes a potential victim finds least threatening or most enticing. They can hold a new shape for several hours, even if the intended victim is no longer present. \n**Slow Drain.** Once they have assumed a nonthreatening form, treacles mewl, sing, or make pitiful noises to attract attention. Once they’re in contact with a potential victim, treacles drain blood slowly, ideally while their prey sleeps or is paralyzed. If threatened or injured, treacles flee. A sated treacle detaches from its victim host and seeks a cool, dark place to rest and digest. With enough food and safety, a treacle divides into two fully-grown oozes. Rarely, a mutation prevents this division, so that the sterile treacle instead grows in size. The largest can mimic human children and the elderly. \nTreacles are small, weighing less than six lb. Their natural forms are pale and iridescent, like oil on fresh milk, but they’re seldom seen this way.", "name": "Treacle", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Ooze", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 22, "hit_dice": "4d4+12", "speed": { "walk": 15, "climb": 10 }, "strength": 4, "dexterity": 6, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 1, "wisdom": 1, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Reshape", "desc": "The treacle assumes the shape of any tiny creature or object. A reshaped treacle gains the movement of its new form but no other special qualities." }, { "name": "Blood Drain (1/hour)", "desc": "A treacle touching the skin of a warm-blooded creature inflicts 4 (1d8) necrotic damage per hour of contact, and the victim's maximum hit points are reduced by the same number. Blood is drained so slowly that the victim doesn't notice the damage unless he or she breaks contact with the treacle (sets it down or hands it to someone else, for example). When contact is broken, the victim notices blood on his or her skin or clothes with a successful DC 13 Wisdom (Perception) check." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amorphous", "desc": "The treacle can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." }, { "name": "Charming Presence", "desc": "The treacle has an uncanny ability to sense and to play off of another creature's emotions. It uses Charisma (Deception) to oppose Wisdom (Insight or Perception) skill checks made to see through its ruse, and it has advantage on its check." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 387, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_treacle/" }, { "slug": "trollkin-reaver", "desc": "_In the north the masses huddle in fear at night, dreading the horns and howls of reavers come to slaughter and pillage. The trollkin reaver’s skin is thick and knobby, and it sports wicked talons and tusks._ \n**Fearsome Savages.** Trollkin have a well-deserved reputation for savagery, and the reavers help reinforce that perception among their neighbors. \n**War Leaders.** Raiding is a staple industry among the trollkin, and the reavers lead the most savage raiding parties in search of wealth, slaves, and supplies. They often recruit other creatures or mercenaries into their bands. It is not uncommon to see bloodthirsty humans, gnolls, or hobgoblins in a reaver’s band. \n**Spirit Talkers.** Trollkin reavers are quite fearful of spirits and ghosts, and listen to their clan shaman and to the word of powerful fey or giants. They prefer to raid only in times of good omens.", "name": "Trollkin Reaver", "size": "Medium", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "trollkin", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "hide armor", "hit_points": 82, "hit_dice": "11d8+33", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 5, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 3, "charisma_save": 3, "perception": null, "skills": { "intimidation": 5, "survival": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common, Trollkin", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The trollkin raider makes three melee attacks: two with its claws and one with its bite, or two with its battleaxe and one with its handaxe, or it makes two ranged attacks with its handaxes." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d4 + 4) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d4" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d4 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d4" }, { "name": "Battleaxe", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage or 9 (1d10 + 4) slashing damage if used with two hands. Using the battleaxe two-handed prevents using the handaxe.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Handaxe", "desc": "Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Howl of Battle (Recharge 6)", "desc": "Up to three allies who can hear the trollkin reaver and are within 30 feet of it can each make one melee attack as a reaction." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Regeneration", "desc": "The trollkin reaver regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. This trait doesn't function if the trollkin took acid or fire damage since the end of its previous turn. The trollkin dies if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate." }, { "name": "Thick Hide", "desc": "The trollkin reaver's skin is thick and tough, granting it a +1 bonus to AC. This bonus is already factored into the trollkin's AC." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 390, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_trollkin-reaver/" }, { "slug": "tusked-skyfish", "desc": "_This horrid creature looks like an enormous flying jellyfish, with long, wicked tusks curving from its gaping mouth and tentacle-whiskers trailing behind it._ \n**Alchemical Flotation.** These aerial jellyfish waft through the air like balloons, suspended by internal alchemical reactions. This mode of movement takes them almost vertically when they wish, or drifts with the winds. They can reach altitudes of 30,000 feet. \n**Shocking Tendrils.** Tusked skyfish catch slow-moving or inattentive prey in their tentacles, and sometimes fish in shallow lakes and streams. They can suppress their natural electrical charge, allowing them to manipulate objects or interact with other creatures safely. \n**Slow Mounts.** When fitted with special saddles, tusked skyfish can be ridden without harming their riders, although their slow speed makes them most suitable for casual excursions or unhurried long-distance travel. The jinnborn and genies seem to find them congenial beasts of burden, carrying as much as 4,000 pounds.", "name": "Tusked Skyfish", "size": "Large", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful good", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 102, "hit_dice": "12d10+36", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 5, "fly": 20 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "lightning", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The tusked skyfish makes one gore attack and one tentacles attack." }, { "name": "Gore", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d8+3" }, { "name": "Tentacles", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 13 (3d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 10 (3d6) lightning damage. The target is also grappled (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained. While grappling the target, the tusked skyfish can't use this attack against other targets. When the tusked skyfish moves, a Medium or smaller target it is grappling moves with it.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "3d6" }, { "name": "Stench Spray (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The tusked skyfish sprays foul-smelling liquid in a line 20 feet long and 5 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a successful DC 13 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature falls unconscious for the same duration. A poisoned creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Tendril Curtain", "desc": "When the tusked skyfish is flying, its wispy, electrified tendrils dangle beneath it and touch all creatures within 20 feet directly below its space as it moves. Any creatures in the path of its movement take 10 (3d6) lightning damage, or half damage with a successful DC 13 Dexterity saving throw." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 391, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_tusked-skyfish/" }, { "slug": "vaettir", "desc": "Vættir are ancestral spirits, sometimes protective and helpful but demanding reverence and wrathful when offended. \n**Servants of the Land.** Land vættir dwell in barrows while sea vættir live beneath lakes, rivers, or the sea—both wear ancient mail and carry bronzes axes in withered hands. Servants of the land, they haunt those who disrespect the wild or ancient laws and traditions.Landvættir dwell in barrows while sjövættir reside beneath lakes, rivers, or the sea. Servants of the land, they are favored by the Vanir, who grant them the ability to curse those who disrespect the wild or ancient laws and traditions. \n**Jealous and Wrathful.** A wrathful vættir rises from its mound when its grave goods are stolen (including heirlooms passed on to living descendants) or when they are disrespected (leaving the dragon prow attached to a longship is a common offense, as is failing to make offerings). Vættir jealously guard both honor and treasures, and may be relentless enemies over matters as small as an accidental word or a single coin. \n**Dangerous Helpers.** A vættir’s blue-black skin is stretched taut over its bones and sinews and its lips are drawn back in a cruel grimace. A rarer, bone-white variety exists that cares little for material possessions, instead guarding their honor or a particular patch of land. Both varieties will answer a summons by descendants or nearby villages. The summoned vættir will wander into longhouses or taverns and sit down beside those who call them, ready to serve. However, there’s always a price and a vættir’s help is often more than bargained for. \n**Undead Nature.** A vaettir doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Vaettir", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "chain shirt", "hit_points": 120, "hit_dice": "16d8+48", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 4, "constitution_save": 5, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 3, "charisma_save": 4, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, poisoned", "senses": "truesight 30 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "the languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The vaettir makes two greataxe attacks or two longbow attacks." }, { "name": "Greataxe", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (1d12 + 5) slashing damage plus 3 (1d6) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d12" }, { "name": "Longbow", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Corpse Breath (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The vaettir spews forth a 15.foot cone of putrid gas. Those caught in the area must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1d4 rounds." }, { "name": "Maddening Gaze (1/Day)", "desc": "The vaettir can lock eyes with a creature and drive it mad. Any creature within 30 feet of a vaettir that is the focus of its gaze must make a DC 12 Charisma saving throw or become confused (as the spell) for 1d4 rounds. If the save is successful, the target is immune to the effect for 24 hours." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Covetous Bond", "desc": "Corpse-black vaettir can see the face of any creature holding or carrying any item the vaettir ever claimed as its own. It also detects the direction and distance to items it ever owned, so long as that item is currently owned by another. If the item changes hands, the new owner becomes the target of the vaettir's hunt. Bone-white vaettir see individuals who have offended them. Neither time nor distance affects these abilities, so long as both parties are on the same plane." }, { "name": "Deathless", "desc": "The vaettir is destroyed when reduced to 0 hit points, but it returns to unlife where it fell on the next nightfall with full hit points. It can be killed only by removing its head, burning the corpse, and dumping the ashes in the sea, or by returning it to its burial mound, placing an open pair of scissors on its chest, and driving pins through its feet." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the vaettir's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\n2/day each: gaseous form, hunter's mark\n\n1/day each: enlarge/reduce, phantom steed\n\n1/week each: bestow curse, geas, remove curse" }, { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "Vaettir avoid daylight. 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